I say we need to abolish prison.
Why?
I am never told the actual figure of funds needed to take care of just one prisoner….or even an estimate of it!
When I say “care”, I am talking about their upkeep, health, social, economic financial care!
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Prisons need to be abolished!
Why?
Because prison focuses entirely on punishment and putting actual human beings into institutions!
Which we all, by now have discovered that it never ends well.
Many people that have been imprisoned before, actually get back into the “free world” marked as ex-convicts and do exactly what had them sent to prison for or worse simply for being labelled and stigmatised!
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No prison should exist in this world today.
Why?
Many of the people in there cannot afford legal representation!
Do I need to add anything to that or you can picture it out, for yourself?
Fort Augusta
Students respond to a question from Correctional Officer/teacher Ethel Morgan during an English Language class at the Fort Augusta Adult Correctional Centre in St. Catherine.
Do you remember the global financial crisis of 2008?
I do….I do not remember seeing or hearing about ANY(not even one) of the real thugs who took down the world’s money with them ever being jailed!
Why should prisons exist when people like those are still roaming in the world out there, huh?
It is either we jail every single criminal out there or do not jail any one of them, sawa?
Do not even get me started on the number of truly innocent people that are rotting in prison, all over the world.
For whatever reasons, they have been in there for so much longer than they should have and now, their world is completely shattered!
By that, I mean their world has been shattered mentally, socially, economically and spiritually!
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights that so many people put their signature to, clearly speaks out against slavery, a very vital component through which prison thrives.
When you are imprisoned, you are most likely going to be oppressed, repressed and tortured….all of which go against the principles of this globally known declaration!
Asking why we should abolish prison?
There is a good reason why!
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We need to abolish prison.
We must abolish prison.
We have to do away with prison.
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I think the prison system is broken and believe there has to be a better way forward. It should be about being able to reform someone and not punish them.
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Along the way the prison system stopped working because prison shouldn’t be about punishment but about making sure that the individual improve and change for the better.
Maureen | http://www.littlemisscasual.com
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I understand the sentiment behind this, and I mostly agree. My only question is violent offenders. What do we do with murderers, rapists, and the like?
👍👍 that’s a good question! For that, we must dismantle the one system that enables them to do what they do….the partriachy.
Don’t forget that the ruling class decides what is considered illegal and criminal. And the minimum sentences. In my part of the world, why are the prisons overpopulated with black and indigenous people? I can go on and on …
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Totally understand and can see behind the sentiment.Thanks for sharing with us.
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I see your point. There truly are other people who get away with their malicious crimes.
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I understand your reasons behind this, and I read your blogs a lot but I will have to disagree with this one. I think we don’t have to abolish prisons.
🤔🤔 why do you disagree?
Hmmm. I see your points here. There are undeniably people who do commit serious and violent crimes, who cannot be safely managed in the community.
🤔🤔 how about preventing those crimes from happening in the first place?
It’s hard but it’s needed to be admitted that the prison system is almost broken. Hoping it will be better soon
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Such an interesting article, it’s worth the read and very informative. It is straight to the point that every reader needs to ponder because of the truthfulness of every piece of information cited here.
👏🏿👏🏿 thank you.
There is a lot that needs to be done to fix the system as it stands. I don’t seem improvement happening any time soon though.
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Thinking we just need to revise the terms
🤔🤔 how so?
I don’t think we would see a world without prison and it would be awesome to see it lol. Great post!
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We definitely need to make changes to the system. There is an interesting show about the world’s most dangerous prisons. There is need for reform for sure.
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If we abolish prison, what do you intend to do with those convicts of heinous crimes? I kind of disagree with this one.
👍👍 that’s a good question.
The prison system is very hard
😩😩 we have to try, though.