Chapter 3 utilizes insights from James Scott’s Seeing Like a State, where he analyzes modern state projects and institutions that planned communities for generic citizens, but these could only function with the simultaneous development of unplanned-for “dark twins.” Thus, the planned city of Brasília only functions because of its unplanned-for satellite cities where most of the laborers essential for its upkeep live. The chapter contends that contraband and licit commerce are the unplanned-for dark twins of planned prisons and penal colonies, proving essential to the planned penal colony’s everyday functions and linked to other limited incentives commanders had to...