Destroy the Prison Industrial Complex

The United States have one of the highest prison populations.
In both for profit and state prisons mentally ill people, addicts, desperate people, teenagers and frankly anyone who struggles and doesn’t fit neatly into society gets locked up, often under cruel conditions.
The prison industrial complex is a tool for oppression and should be torn down.

PIC abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.

From where we are now, sometimes we can’t really imagine what abolition is going to look like. Abolition isn’t just about getting rid of buildings full of cages. It’s also about undoing the society we live in because the PIC both feeds on and maintains oppression and inequalities through punishment, violence, and controls millions of people. Because the PIC is not an isolated system, abolition is a broad strategy. An abolitionist vision means that we must build models today that can represent how we want to live in the future. It means developing practical strategies for taking small steps that move us toward making our dreams real and that lead us all to believe that things really could be different. It means living this vision in our daily lives.

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Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

It's easy to hate society and give up on a change after you've done time. While doing time, you're more likely than not treated like shit and you get so angry at the system that you are actually more motivated to fuck the system once you get out. In the end you'll identity more with others who hates the system than trying to fit in which makes it easy to continue the criminal lifestyle, it's more home than anything else.

To prevent this prisons can't be prisons.
And there must be more employees who take in people with criminal records. If it's already hard to find a job without a criminal record it's nearly impossible with one. It shouldn't be as hard as it is to get back in to society. If it's too difficult former inmates rather fall back in the comfort of criminality.

The system is not favouring criminals to get a new chance. It's designed to punish them forever.

RebelliousSpirit · F

@Queendragonfly I agree a 100% the saddest part is that the system keeps giving reasons to hate it. Prisons foster hate and violence.
The stigma is deadly

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@RebelliousSpirit Exactly. And instead of teaching inmates to connect with their vulnerability, and express how they feel, they throw them in to isolation anytime they have coped bad emotionally.

How is punishment gonna help anything? It's a lazy retired system.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@Queendragonfly I have to ask, have you done time yourself? Because you definitely sound like someone who has experience, or who knows someone who does.

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@LordShadowfire I knew someone would ask 😂 I realized I sound like I have lots of experience but really I have just listened to people who have the jail experience, watched documentaries and so on. Add psychology to that and boom. I get these type of opinions.

Pitchblue

@Queendragonfly You can always be a Politician with a criminal record.

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

@Pitchblue Like the rest, just don't get caught.

Pitchblue

@Queendragonfly Doesn't matter if you get caught. You can run for President from jail.