Welcome To The Night Watchman

America built them — its freedom, contradictions, violence, hope, inequality, possibility. And they built it back in song, shaping how the country hears itself.

If Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were looking at this moment — the sealed files, the slow releases, the federal shootings reviewed by the same systems involved — they wouldn’t start with legal theory.

These warehouses aren’t county jails. They aren’t prisons built after trials. They’re administrative holding sites designed for volume — intake, sorting, transfer — where liberty disappears because of legal category, not a jury verdict.