It's like this system is a monster, and even if you can see how wrong it is, you're not allowed to get out of its jaws. You're supposed to get eaten, and then do something about it later. It's the inhumanity of it that gets me, how the process itself seems to have more value than any human being caught up in its belly. We have to proceed because these are the proceedings, so they have to go on. It feels like being crushed, like being broken by something you can't even get a hand on.

The violence of the paperwork.

— Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Page 59)