Why is “prisons are bad and you can’t make them good” such a hard concept to grasp
Except you could give prisoners proper health care because remember how the government loves locking up people of colour for smoking weed??? Do you think those people deserve to be sick without help??? And never mind people in prison for nearly no reason???
It’s not “don’t make prisons better,” it’s “instead of engaging in the misguided and futile work of improving prisons, abolish them”
The point being that prisons and generally a punishment based “justice” system is intrinsically unjust and fucked up and is not redeemable. Any attempt to make prisons better is a band-aid solution not solving the real problems.
Band-aid solutions definitely are good and help people, but we need to focus on real solutions and work on dismantle horribly broken oppressive structures rather than wasting our energy patching them.
Though, if you disagree with us on the idea that prisons are irredeemable… I don’t even know what to say.
I’d be really interested in the link between ‘people of colour smoking weed’ and ‘health care’. I can see two possible explanations for that connection:
- Smoking weed does nothing wrong and prisoners are entitled to health care because they did nothing wrong. Implying that people who did do something wrong don’t deserve health care and that basic human rights like health care would not be relevant if only the government locked up the really bad people. (Jikes)
- Smoking some weed makes you an addict in need of addiction related health care. (LOL)
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