The mentality of "you're forever damned as a war criminal because you did supply chain management for the Navy for a few years" is utterly incompatible with basically all leftist critiques of the criminal legal system. You can't talk about prison abolition on one hand and then say Bobby the forklift commander gets the wall. You can't talk about how horrible it is to ruin someone's life with prison over a mistake they made as a 19-year-old and then say someone's life is forfeit because they enlisted at 17 and didn't have the balls to go AWOL.
And all of that is before you get to the practical considerations you mention.
The mentality of "you're forever damned as a war criminal because you did supply chain management for the Navy for a few years" is utterly incompatible with basically all leftist critiques of the criminal legal system. You can't talk about prison abolition on one hand and then say Bobby the forklift commander gets the wall. You can't talk about how horrible it is to ruin someone's life with prison over a mistake they made as a 19-year-old and then say someone's life is forfeit because they enlisted at 17 and didn't have the balls to go AWOL.
And all of that is before you get to the practical considerations you mention.