cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/flippanarchy/p/596572/abolish
but how will we stop the roving hordes of chainsaw murderers who I know are just waiting to get me?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/community-self-defense
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The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on earth — worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations. In the global context, even “progressive” U.S. states like New York and Massachusetts appear as extreme as Louisiana and Mississippi in their use of prisons and jails.
(2024) World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country [Source]
Now, add the ICE concentration camps…
How’s that working out so far…?
Richard Pryor once made a movie that was set in a prison.
Afterwards he said that he’d gotten to talk to the prisoners and hear their stories.
And he concluded that prisons were a good thing.
Rehabilitation is a good thing. Prisons (especially the american kind) are not.
Putting people into a dog cage with a bunch of other offenders and being overseen by sub 100iq dipshits ends up making harder criminals, not fixing them.
Now there are definitely people who need to be locked up for their safety or the public’s but most criminals are not that.
Putting people into a dog cage with a bunch of other offenders and being overseen by sub 100iq dipshits ends up making harder criminals, not fixing them.
You know something is fundamentally broken when the prison system is for profit and brags to investors about the high recidivism rates.
Too many of our “criminals” are in simple possession drug charges, mostly for cannabis, which in the “land of the free” should have never been any of the government’s business in the first place.
Last time I looked at the stats it was like 80% was in for non violent drug charges.
Asking the abused how they feel about their abusers while they’re still in the clutches of said abusers, and expecting honest answers? Lol. Lmao even.
Richard Pryor, the guy who set himself on fire after binging cocaine, then spent years bragging about it? I wonder if his opinions would be different if fame hadn’t shielded him from consequences for doing massive amounts of illegal substances. Either way I think I’ll find my political opinions elsewhere.
We create an environment that brutalises people and then say “they deserve to be here” when they get to the end of that process.
