/r/prisonabolition
For posts on things like: prison industrial complex, prison abolition, prison mitigation, prison policy, restorative justice, and other related matters.
/r/prisonabolition
Theres no official end date just a possible one and the reason they gave me this punishment is cause i was trolling online while heavily intoxicated and they use those texts against me and the bs diagnosis of the forensic psychiatrist (which they barely read cause the judge named another diagnosis than the psych) to support the punishment they wanna give me.
Last year was hell. I was nervous, stressed, worried, depressed and restless the whole year (still but i feel a little better even tho i had periods that were just as bad as last year) cause they let me wait almost the whole year before i could show up in court for higher appeal and nothing came from it.
If i didnt go into higher appeal i wouldve been on my second year now so much closer to my freedom but now im on my first year so after this year is done i have two full years to go and hope that they will set me free.
Time is going so slow its driving me nuts and every little thing i do makes me lose my mind i wouldnt be too surprised if i have brain damage by now
Im forgetting way faster now which is the beginning of brain damage. Chronic stress kills you faster than anything else.
Im exhausted suffering after suffering i cant handle it IT FEELS LIKE THEY WANNA SLOWLY KILL ME😔
My essay prompt is on prison abolition, and what are the arguments for and against it. What books do you think have made some good arguments against prison abolition, that are preferably not so US-centered?
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2010 to 2019 saw a steady but slow decline, but 2020 saw a precipitous drop from 1.43 million to 1.22 million, or of about 210,000 people. Clearly COVID-19 must have had a lot to do with it, but is this more due to prisons releasing prisoners to help with social distancing or is it because way more prisoners died in custody than the government admits?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/203718/number-of-prisoners-in-the-us/
I'm fairly new to the idea of abolition, but in the past few months I've been reading as much as I can about the topic and am now almost completely convinced that we should abolish prisons and policing. However, the vast majority of what I've been reading is very US-centric, and I'm finding it hard to have conversations with people around me about the subject of abolition when practically all the facts, figures and anecdotes that I've remembered and could use in my arguments are specific to the US. Can anyone recommend any resources on abolition that are specific to a UK context? I'm in the process of reading Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean, and have read a lot of John Bowden's articles but I'm wondering if there are any other resources that would be worth checking out.
I know a few people in prison. I often visit for visitation so they maintain some connection. I also am working with orgs working towards abolition in the long term. In the short term what can I do to support folks, equip them to withstand the incarceration industry
Im in the USA
can anybody give me a good video that explains it all from the beginning, preferably from a black person that acknowledges the prison's racist system?
Any movies that have to do with prisoners, prisons, harsh guards and so on, to show the inhumane way prisoners live? And ultimately come to the conclusion that prisons must be abolished
As an anarchist I want to learn more about prison abolition. What is the idea behind this, if together with the abolition of prisons we want to abolish the system, if the system (state capitalism) can work without prisons, what is our opinion about imprisoned murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and what about the fighters etc. thank you very much