prison industrial complex

i agree. there is not enough talk about penalties for violent crimes. people get offended, because there is also not enough knowledge about what a violent crime means. some of them are quite petty ime. some of them are very horrible. they are not all the same.

anyway i clicked that and read it sort of but i was imagining something like a salary cap. like each prosecutor's office must cap the number of years all people are sentenced to in a given time period. what an idea!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html

and on another note, good thread here:

Malcolm Rifkind in @FT, "Private Prisons have been a serious moral mistake". Ends with this "Incarceration should be administered by servants of the state & not by private companies in Britain or elsewhere, regardless of efficiency or cost effectiveness": https://t.co/x5ZDuTOKBh

— Sanjay G Reddy (@sanjaygreddy) April 17, 2019

“The Special Report notes that the number of people held in solitary confinement in the United States ballooned to an estimated 300,000 people in April, as compared to an estimated 60,000 people held in solitary confinement each day prior to the outbreak.” https://t.co/JT08MY4sIp

— Marking Time (@MarkingTime6) June 15, 2020

Really good piece.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165112/sirhan-gavin-newsom-prison-release

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/21/new-york-jail-chinatown-rikers-island

Is it, as opponents say, an ugly symbol of mass incarceration – or, as planners believe, a sign of a city slowly but surely righting its criminal justice ills?

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quality journalism