If you haven't been adjudicated, dear reader, you don't know what it is you say when you call for them to be locked up and the key thrown away.

It's easy to declare off with somebody's head, but closer introspection often finds that your immediate impulse is not the optimal choice.

If prison, judges, and punishments were to solve the ailments of society, they would have done it when prison was the holding cell outside the arena.

Clearly what we have is not helping.
To repeat what we are doing over and over for centuries is mass insanity.

Crapitalism creates criminals to give cops something to do.
Smdh.

Harsh Conditions, Violent Repression: Stoking the Flame of the 2018 Prison Strike

September 7, 2018

Prisons, USA – An “improvement to the conditions of prisons” is part of the first of ten demands of the nationwide 2018 Prison Strike, which comes to a symbolic end on September 9.
That day is the 47th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, the historic prisoner rebellion that was violently quashed by the state of New York’s forces.
The uprising was over prison conditions, the main determinant of quality of life for inmates inside prison walls across the United States.
For decades inmates across the United States speaking up, or organizing, for better conditions have faced multiple forms of retaliation by prison officials, and in 2018, not much has changed.

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