#and the recent supreme court ruling too..... its just very bleak. violence is woven into every fabric of our society.

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been reading about life sentences and prison abolition a lot lately (mostly visa-vi children who become lifers and the laws which allow children to be tried as adults) and its crazy how "tough on crime" politicians can't use the superpredator rhetoic anymore so they'll take One Guy and turn that person into a boogeyman which makes it impossible to enact meaningful change like. the way oregon used to have some of the most strict mandatory minimums for juvi offenders as young as 15 (which goes hand in hand with the history of oregon/northwestern exclusion of black residents and the intrinsic antiblackness in the area) and reforming this took literal decades bc politicians could fear monger about the thurston high school shooter getting out of prison (after passing a bill that prevented sentencing minors to life without parole they added an addendum which excluded anyone sentenced before 2019- trapping hundreds of others into an endless sentence just for this one imfamous prisoner) like you have to destroy the notion that One Singular Person is Evil Enough to require the human rights abuses which allow 15 year olds to basically be thrown away forever like sorry if that is the case it doesn't work!!!!

#and the reason the fearmongering exists is because we know prison Does Not Work in the sense rehabilitation is not the goal #punishment is. so its easy to be like. we will never Be Safe from the evil. therefore justifying the continued existence of max punishment #and so we are just torturing people forever how are we okay with that #idk i think about the worst happening to me. i imagine being murdered. and the desecration of my memory that would be sentencing someone #to die in my name. it makes me sick i cannot stand it #and the recent supreme court ruling too..... its just very bleak. violence is woven into every fabric of our society. #this was spurred by hanif abdurraqib saying something about the rhetoric surrounding palestinian children in israeli prisons #in america. when they are often not sentenced for any crime etc (these are effectively hostages the news refuses to acknowledge as such). #is par for the course in a nation that imprisons more children than any other nation in the world. and thus. reading. #my posts