Anti-government forces in Kenosha burned down a Department of Corrections outposts in the lakeside city. In WI, prison doesn’t end on release and criminalized citizens have been forced since 1995 to “pay a portion” of their own supervision, a monthly tax

Under supervision, after their prison sentence ends, residents are assigned a DOC agent, who documents their professional life, surveils their romantic & personal pursuits and is given access to their home. If they disobey or displease an agent, they are often thrown back in jail

An agent is an internal security officer like police, but they only carry out specific surveillance rather than making arrests. Americans with supervision agents cannot travel internationally and have to apply for the right to leave their state (say, to drive one hour to Chicago)

If the agent decides they will allow that, the DOC issues an internal visa, a travel permit for up to 15 days of movement. There isn’t recourse for this — agented Wisconsites can’t vote as they aren’t considered to have full civil rights w/out agent restoration “to” those rights.

This isn’t hyperbole! It might be uncomfortable language, to discuss the US landscape the way other countries are discussed, but all of it is accurate (legally & stylistically). The most provocative aspects (a state agent that surveils second-class citizens) is *their language*