Neoliberal governance has become a defining feature of our social world, fast-tracking the commodification of human interaction, particularly within capitalist economies. Neoliberalism’s intensification of capitalist social relations shifted social institutions such as education, healthcare, and criminal justice to resemble profit-oriented enterprises. A preeminent consequence of this shift for the administration of criminal justice is the rapid expansion of monetary sanctions in the form of pay-to-stay fees. Our article contributes to scholarship on neoliberal governance and social institutions by exploring how lawmakers justify and frame the imposition and recoupment of pay-to-stay fees. We draw from a novel dataset compiled by the authors on pay-to stay in the state of Illinois, which consists of state-level pay-to-stay statutes, transcripts of legislative debates on the ratification of pay-to-stay statutes, and 102 civil complaints from 1997 to 2015 initiated on behalf of the Illinois Department of Corrections against currently and formerly incarcerated people to compel the payment of pay-to-stay fees. Our analysis suggests that in the era of neoliberal governance, consumerism is an institutional logic that lawmakers draw from to adopt pay-to-stay as a legal template in an effort to foster a producer–consumer relationship between incarcerated people and the state, thereby producing incarceration as a public commodity.

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“就像你收到酒店账单一样”：消费者逻辑、付费住宿以及作为公共商品的监禁生产*

新自由主义治理已经成为我们社会世界的一个决定性特征，快速追踪人类互动的商品化，特别是在资本主义经济中。新自由主义对资本主义社会关系的强化使教育、医疗保健和刑事司法等社会机构转变为类似于以利润为导向的企业。这种刑事司法管理​​转变的一个显着后果是以付费住宿费用的形式迅速扩大货币制裁。我们的文章通过探讨立法者如何证明和制定支付住宿费用的征收和补偿，为新自由主义治理和社会制度的学术做出贡献。我们从作者编写的关于伊利诺伊州付费逗留的新数据集中提取，该数据集由州级付费逗留法规组成，关于批准付费逗留法规的立法辩论记录，以及 1997 年至 2015 年代表伊利诺伊州惩教局针对目前和以前被监禁的人提出的 102 起民事投诉，要求他们支付付费逗留费用。我们的分析表明，在新自由主义治理时代，消费主义是一种制度逻辑，立法者可以借鉴这种制度逻辑，将付费逗留作为法律模板，以努力在被监禁者与国家之间建立生产者-消费者关系，从而产生监禁作为一种公共商品。1997 年至 2015 年代表伊利诺伊州惩教局针对目前和以前被监禁的人提出的 102 起民事投诉，要求他们支付住宿费。我们的分析表明，在新自由主义治理时代，消费主义是一种制度逻辑，立法者可以借鉴这种制度逻辑，将付费逗留作为法律模板，以努力在被监禁者与国家之间建立生产者-消费者关系，从而产生监禁作为一种公共商品。1997 年至 2015 年代表伊利诺伊州惩教局针对目前和以前被监禁的人提出的 102 起民事投诉，要求他们支付住宿费。我们的分析表明，在新自由主义治理时代，消费主义是一种制度逻辑，立法者可以借鉴这种制度逻辑，将付费逗留作为法律模板，以努力在被监禁者与国家之间建立生产者-消费者关系，从而产生监禁作为一种公共商品。