#abolish prisons

[politijohn]

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This should never have been a thing

#religion #atheist #atheism #Christianity #prisons #abolish prisons #criminal justice #government #the left #news #current events

[thoughtportal]

every clock is a cop

#party time #time #clock #abolish the police #abolish capitalism #abolish prisons #anarchism

[radicalgraff]

"Rikers (prison) Kills"

Seen in Union Square, NYC

#graffiti #graff #abolish prisons

[decolonize-the-left]

Was going through old boxes and found some fun lil DIY life hack pamphlets I picked up from a trash somewhere

Who knew glue was so useful.

#acab #praxis #leftist #direct action #communists #anarchists #ancom #abolish prisons #abolish police #abolish ice

[personal-blog243]

The “criminal loophole” has been written OUT of the TN constitution!

#good news #blm #black lives matter #justice reform #abolish prison labor #Tennessee #TN #acab #fuck 12 #abolish the police #abolish prisons #defund the police #fuck the police #prison industrial complex

[anarchistin]

The jail extracts people from lives-in-motion in order to extract time from them. Why time? Because it is the element, become a commodity, that enables flows of carceral cash (wages, debt service, rent, utility bills, vendor invoices, and so on). It is that commodity that inspires, as any system under racial capitalism always will, persistently innovative strategies to direct the flow toward particular coffers: salaries; agency budgets; politicians’ reelectability; construction companies and raw materials purveyors; consultants; elite landowners; investment bankers; pension fund bondholders; or other resources that, in the abstract, could be used for anything, but in the ideologically charged ongoing material present, consolidate in the carceral fix.

The commodification of an unfree person’s time doesn’t end with them being drained of their non-renewable resource, although that is more horror than anyone should bear. As with all carceral interruptions to life-in-motion, unfree persons’ households and communities also experience the drain. Not only deprived of time and money resources, they are also exposed to life-shortening effects of powerless worry and ambient toxins that, in sum, contribute to group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

— Ruth Wilson Gilmore

#prison #abolish prisons #ruth wilson gilmore #quote #racism #capitalism

[green-elf-magicks]

I want to underscore that the creator of the audio has stated multiple times in their other videos (and in the full length video this audio is from), that she recognizes that voting/demonstrating/calling your reps DOES indeed have an impact, however, they go on to explain that the impact is simply NOT ENOUGH at this point; that by itself, protest is ineffective without making other disruptions to the system. I highly encourage you to check out his other videos. She has a lot of great content that breaks things down.

You can find their videos at this link:

#this was my first foray into animation #and oof it may look simple but it didn’t feel like it #it was a learning process #and something for me to put all my feelings into #take the power back #power to the people #free palestine #free Gaza #liberation #organizing #buy nothing #trans rights #blm #unionize #education #Yemen #abolish ice #abolish prisons #abolish capitalism #abolish the police

[liberaljane]

Quick color study 🎃

Digital illustration using black, purple and orange depicting a fem witch flying on a broomstick. She has a purple hat, black dress and striped socked with Pom Pom shoes. Text reads, ‘hex the prison industrial complex’

#art #feminism #feminist #prison #prison industrial complex #abolish prisons #criminal justice #restorative justice #drawing #feminist art #witch #Halloween

[alpaca-clouds]

Why I oppose punitive justice

Time for another anarchist talking point. I actually do not believe in punitive justice. I do not believe in locking people up in jail or making them pay fines as punishment (though asking them to pay for something they broke is alright). And I do even less believe in violence as a form of punishment. Moreover I do believe that the idea of punishment is rooted in a deeply flawed perception of why crimes get commited, as well as a deeply flawed idea of what justice is.

Let me explain.

I will say it again: I actually do believe that humans are in general decent creatures who have evolved to function well in groups. As such it is for the most part not our nature to commit crimes - outside of things were the crime actually is something that should not be illegal in the first place.

Most crimes, that do get committed, have one of the following causes:

It is a crime arrising from a situation committed spontanously without much prior thought.

It is a crime committed out of a desperate situation with the "criminal" not seeing any other way out.

It is a crime committed by someone in a psychologically bad place.

It is a crime committed by a true believer who believed himself to act justly.

One of the first ideas of punitive justice is that it somehow deters people from committing crimes, because they will think to themselves: "I do not want to be punished." But this just ignores the actual reasoning behind those crimes.

Someone who commits crime spontanously (which is a lot of violent crime, actually - most violent crime is not committed by someone who has gone somewhere with a plan to commit violence, but rather arises out of people unable to deal with emotions) does not think about the consequences in the moment.

Someone in a desperate situation often just does not see themselves having a choice. Examples of this can both be that person killing an abusive partner or parent, or the person stealing bread from a supermarket, because they are otherwise going to starve.

Someone who commits crimes because they are psychologically in a bad place (by which I do not even mean the serial killers, though some of them surely also fall under this umbrella - rather I am speaking of people who are prone to violence, have habbits or are forced into crime through addiction and the like) often will not consider possible outcomes either.

And the last kind of person usually tends to believe they are in their right to do whatever. This might be those abusing partners, as well as a ton of people committing hate crimes.

So, yeah... Punishment does not deter people from crimes. We even do have statistics on this showing that often enough in the places with the most harsh punishments there are more crimes getting committed than in the places with softer punishment.

Now, when it comes to the entire idea of justice... Two wrongs do not make a right. Punishing someone does not make the crime undone. Especially given that the punishment often lasts much longer than whatever the actual sentence is, due to societal prejudice against anyone who might have been imprisoned once.

Don't get me wrong: I do think there are some cases where people might need to be somewhere under lockdown, because otherwise they will not stop dealing in violence. The "true believers" often belong under this category. And some people in psychological emergencies, too.

But they should be kept secure for that reason: Security. Not to punish them for their crimes.

Punishment does not make a society safer. At best it satisfies some vengeful lustings of a society. And if we do not (and we cannot) satisfy an individuals lusting for revenge... We should also not do that on a society wide scale. Rather we should focus on making the world safer for everyone.

#solarpunk #anarchism #abolish prisons #anti punitive justice #justice system #politics

[politijohn]

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Reminder that 53% of Alabama’s prison population is black people who are incarcerated at 3x the rate as white people (source).

#prisons #abolish prisons #criminal justice #criminal justice system #news #Alabama #current events #workers rights #workers #capitalism #government

[brettdoesdiscourse]

A big argument with the pro death penalty crowd is, "well what about the people who actually are guilty?" And the answer is always, "well what about the people who are actually innocent?"

I would rather spare the lives of a 100 guilty people rather than execute 1 innocent person.

And functionally, the death penalty doesn't really do anything.

There's no evidence to suggest that states that have the death penalty see a decrease in crime, so it isn't a deterrent. The only thing it functionally does is attempt to make people feel better.

A life sentence will functionally accomplish the same thing a death penalty does, it will keep that person away from the public.

With life sentences, an innocent person has the opportunity to be found innocent and released. You can't bring an innocent person back to life if you find out after their execution that they're actually innocent.

*Stop tagging this post as pro life. I'm pro abortion, this post is pro abortion. If you like and/or reblog this post, you're pro abortion too*

#sidenote there's a bloodlust in the usa justice system that extends to citizens #but i don't know if yall are ready for that conversation yet #anti death penalty #anti capital punishment #capital punishment #death penalty #abolish prisons #abolish capital punishment #prison industrial complex #discourse #social discourse #brett does discourse

[chronicallycouchbound]

Legality ≠ morality

#abolition #abolitionist #acab1312 #acab #abolish the police #abolish the state #abolish police #abolish ice #abolish prisons #abolish family policing #leftist theory #leftist #abolish landlords #abolish capitalism #abolish the supreme court #1312 #human rights #incarcerated people #incarceration #cripple punk #cripplepunk #chronically couchbound #fuck 12

[thoughtportal]

In March 2021, sheriffs in Etowah county, Alabama, arrested Ashley Caswell on accusations that she’d tested positive for methamphetamine while pregnant and was “endangering” her fetus.

Caswell, who was two months pregnant at the time, became one of a growing number of women imprisoned in the county in the name of protecting their “unborn children”.

But over the next seven months of incarceration for “chemical endangerment” in the Etowah county detention center (ECDC), Caswell was denied regular access to prenatal visits, even as officials were aware her pregnancy was high-risk due to her hypertension and abnormal pap smears, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday against the county and the sheriff’s department. She was also denied her prescribed psychiatric medication and slept on a thin mat on the concrete floor of the detention center for her entire pregnancy.

In October, when her water broke and she pleaded to be taken to a hospital, her lawyer says, officials told her to “sleep it off” and “wait until Monday” to deliver – two days away.

During nearly 12 hours of labor, staff gave her only Tylenol for her pain, the suit says, allegedly telling her to “stop screaming”, to “deal with the pain” and that she was “not in full labor”. Caswell lost amniotic fluid and blood and was alone and standing up in a jail shower when she ultimately delivered her child, according to the complaint and her medical records. She nearly bled to death, her lawyers say.

After she was taken to a hospital, she was diagnosed with placental abruption, a condition in which the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus and the fetus is deprived of oxygen, meaning there was a risk of stillbirth. The baby survived, but Caswell was immediately separated from her newborn.

#article #the guardian #reproductive rights #reproductive health #reproduction #reproductive justice #abolish prisons #alabama #the united states

[intersectionalpraxis]

Here is the link to the petition! Demand an End of Alabama's Forced Labor Scheme in State Prisons

Something I learned a long time ago, and I will never forget -is that the reason why most prison systems have very short visitation times is because they do BUSINESS with a huge telecom company -and the hope is that with shorter times to see people in their life, they will HAVE to inevitably use in-prison phones set-up and therefore will spend more money... Once you start reading about the prison industrial complex you will surely become an abolitionist.

Angela Davis' work is something I can't emphasize and recommend enough to people to learn who want to learn/unlearn more about these issues as a start. This Is one of her most recent books. But she has many on this topic:

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free palestine #angela davis #prison abolition #abolish capitalism #abolish prisons #abolish the police #defund the police #fuck capitalism #prison system #intersectionality #intersectional activism #forced labour

[decolonize-the-left]

I love your blog and I respect you a lot so please if it possible i want to ask you something. No one seems to care much for the fate of the egyptian protesters who were imprisoned yesterday and many of them were elderly. Egyptians prisons are a living nightmare where even medicine is denied and they live in crowded cells infested with mosquitos. Please we need to do somethimg this is horrifying they may die from lack of medical care and torture when all they did was protest for aid to enter Gaza.

Hi!

I can't find a method of how to help or where to direct people to donate! I assume it's because it's written in another language? I can't even see the page for the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.

That said, here are some articles I found regarding all this so I can at least help spread some awareness.

Activists shared videos of one of the protesters chanting against business tycoon and government ally Ibrahim al-Organi, whose companies have been charging Palestinians thousands of dollars to exit Gaza.

The government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been criticised for failing to challenge Israel's siege on Gaza during the current conflict, and for allowing state-linked companies to profit from the movement of people and aid via the Rafah crossing. The Rafah crossing in northeast Egypt is the only gateway for Gaza that is not directly controlled by Israel. But since 7 October it has opened only intermittently. Egypt blames Israel for the closure of the crossing, as Israel has imposed strict checks on all trucks entering Gaza via Rafah.

Following the protest, 10 activists were arrested at their homes and detained for 15 days on charges of spreading false information and joining a terrorist group, often a reference to the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organization in 2013, following the removal of President Mohammed Morsi from power. Since then, the government has cracked down on political dissent and banned protests, leading to the arrest of critics and activists who speak out against government policies.

During that trip, towards the prison near the Egyptian-Libyan border, detainees were scared and tired. Some of them had to urinate inside the car, using plastic bottles they had, after they were denied access to bathrooms.

He told MEMO: “One of us had diarrhoea and had to use the bathroom. We surrounded him with a curtain made up of our clothes so he wouldn’t get exposed. He had to defecate in the car, cleaned himself with some water he had and collected the faeces in a plastic bag. He was in so much pain: the pain in his stomach and the pain of injustice and oppression.”

About an hour after sunset, the deportation car arrived, carrying ten detainees of different ages. They took sips of water and ate some dates, before beginning a second journey into one of the country’s most infamous prisons. Officials in this prison, named Al-Manfa, or the exile, are known to “honour” new detainees by torturing, abusing, beating and insulting them upon their arrival. The prison has 216 cells and the abuse is often directed at opponents of Al-Sisi.

And of course, if anyone knows more direct ways of helping such as where to donate or about calls to action or solidarity requests being made by those in Egypt then I think anon and I would really appreciate it!!

#egypt #current events #news #asked #answered #this is awful omg #free palestine #rafah #Egyptian prisons #human rights #abolish prisons #leftist #capitalism #palestine

[memphisfoodnotbombs]

@radicalgraff

#abolish the police #food not bombs #anarchist #foodnotbombs #anarchism #anarchy #food is a human right #foodisaright #abolish capitalism #abolitionist #police abolition #prison abolition #abolish ice #abolish prisons