Just gonna leave this PDF of Angela Davis' Are Prisons Obsolete? here.
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How about if I’m not bothering anybody then don’t even arrest me?
I misunderstood that comment above. My bad.
What do you mean? People get arrested for possession of weed for example that they plan to consume by themselves, not bothering anybody. Then they get locked up. You rather lock them away, than try to rehabilitate them? This applies to so many cases. Of course there are cases where the verdict says prison but at least try to keep people out of prison. But wait the prison system is a corporation trying to make money.
Uh did you misread it? That's exactly his point, people getting arrested when they weren't even bothering anyone.
The logic is deterrence.
I mean it's stupid, but that's what the supporters think.
The thing they are missing is that no one commits a crime thinking they will get caught. So ever increasing the deterrence doesn't help.
Drugs is a public health issue, no really criminal. Prohibition doesn't work with things done at scales like drugs and alcohol. You're just feeding the criminal gangs.
It's not deterrence, that's not the point. Deterrence does not work.
It's about sending people to prison so they can do cheap labor. It's also about racism because it's disproportionately targeted towards minorities. It absolutely makes sense in that light.
I'm sure that is the motivation of some, those involved, but the vast majority of support will be voters who think deterrence works.
It's the prison-industrial complex paying the politicians to push this stuff through. Voters don't matter to the politics being pushed, they just get told later that they wanted them.
Hey what are you some kind of Russian bo-
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Checks Constitution
(Yes this is cringe but I want it that way)
Everyone breaks the law, and it is selectively enforced against the poor. System working as intended. System working as intended.
Well someone somewhere still believes that prison is about rehabilation and not punishment
also drug addiction is arguably something that the word treatment would be more applicable for
It didn't say what mechanism would be used for the drugs to ruin your life. Prison works just as well as turning tricks for smack as far as life ruining goes.
I am once again asking everyone to read Alex Vitale's End of Policing
It's the same logic as when Republicans claim Government doesn't work....
It's not ignorance or stupidity, it's a mission statement.. Republicans are trying to make Government not work and Cops are actively trying to fuck you over
You don't go to jail (if there isn't evidence of you selling it) in my country. Because it's not a penal crime, but an administrative one.
