carceral

To summon the strength to endure these diabolical conditions, I invoked images of my ancestors chained together in the leaky hulls of vermin-infested slave ships, saying to myself that if they could survive the transatlantic Middle Passage, then I could survive New York state’s carceral middle passage.

In an interview with JDD, the minister said the new prison would be governed by an "extremely strict carceral regime" designed to "incapacitate the most dangerous drug traffickers".

County’s juvenile hall in Sylmar, Efty Sharony filed a report that said she witnessed conditions worse than anything she’d seen in “over 20 years of experience visiting every level of carceral facility in California.”

You've also talked a lot about carceral societies and a wide variety of carceral situations.

That is to say that a profoundly carceral and punitive society, with punishment based on class and racial lines, has always been a thing, but now we're seeing the open rise of deportation, isolation, surveillance and very strict punishment.