Unannounced inspection finds serious safety concerns at federal prison in Sheridan
The Oregonian / OregonLive
The list of things wrong is absolutely horrifying. Prison is where society puts bodies to suffer and die. This is not justice. This is callous cruelty.
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Prisons put survivors of sexual assault under the power of rapists who seek out jobs in prisons. Prisons account for almost as many sexual assaults as happen in the rest of the population outside prison, with most of those committed or enabled by prison officials. One prison down...now to abolish the rest
If you're someone who volunteers and works to help survivors or prevent sexual assault, abolishing prisons will dramatically reduce sexual assault.
These packages let us order food items which are not available at the canteen, and help supplement Willie's diet. In addition to providing a needed variety of food.
As a human rights activist, I cannot remain silent about the alarming situation faced by people deprived of their liberty. Overcrowding and overpopulation in prisons not only violate human dignity, but also make it impossible to guarantee minimum living conditions.
Together, we can and must promote a prison system that focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment, a system that reflects the values of justice and humanity that we all deserve.
Don't mind me, just designing a syllabus for a course on Sexuality, Gender, and Incarceration sitting at a lesbian bar wearing my "Be Gay, Do Crime" earrings and using the insights of a renegade trans researcher on how to make a better syllabus.
Carceral feminism is a critical term for types of #feminism that advocate for enhancing and increasing prison sentences that deal with feminist and gender issues. The term criticises the belief that harsher and longer #prison sentences will help work towards solving these issues.
Here's a problem I have trying to explain to people why I want to abolish police, abolish prisons. No matter how I phrase things many people hear a moral argument. That police are evil, prisons are evil. But this isn't at all what I mean. In fact seeing the issue that way, as a matter of good and evil, completely obscures the explanation. It brings it into the realm of opinion. It lets people nod their heads and stop listening. Of course people can disagree over things like this!
Dichotomies like that, good/evil, moral/immoral, work this way to cover up truths about the world that are impossible to face and still go on normally. The two poles of such dichotomies immediately conjure up a continuum between them. If something is evil or immoral it can be made less evil or less immoral and that's some kind of progress. Not accepting this kind of incrementalism makes one a moralist, a perfectionist, an idealist, a purist, someone who can ultimately be ignored, someone they can agree to disagree with, like we all do in order to get along with people with so many matters of opinion. There's no need to listen any more, it's just another extreme theoretical position among all the others.
Imagine buzzards eating corpses on the road with their heads deep in the guts of a rotting deer. The stench of death, the slimy putrid ooze on their bald heads. It's not evil, it's how they live, but it's not how human beings live. Being seen by other people willingly, joyfully, smearing one's body with corpse juice, reveling in putrefied rotting dead goop, eating gobbets of rotting flesh, would be shameful, inhuman. It's beyond good and evil. It's not the kind of thing that invites accepting, polite disagreement. No one wants to hear that person's explanations about why wallowing in rotten corpses is good, actually. We want to run far away.
This is what the police are like, what prisons are. They thrive on the bodies of murder victims, they blossom on fields soaked with human blood, rotting corpses. Cops, jailers, their supporters, are willingly swimming in pools of rotten stinking death, joyfully breathing its vapors. This essence is very, very well- hidden inside whitewashed mausoleums by ideologies, social narratives, cultural handshakes, and so on.
I saw this all of a sudden a few years ago and I can't unsee it, the corpses swinging in the wind hanged by the tens of thousands and left to decay, but it's not so easy to explain to people. It's not a matter of stating the right facts, measuring the right statistics, it's a way of looking at the world. It can't be explained quickly, which in practice means often it can't be explained at all.
There is no benefit to anyone on the left being on twitter.
Nina Turner tweeted "Insulin should be free." some libertarians responded "Nina should pick cotton for free."
Did this obvious racism hurt them? No, they now have more followers than ever. Being over there is just being bait for these extremists to build their network.
Grotesque racist images of Nina, rather than being demoted by the algorithm are being promoted since the people posting them paid for blue checks.
@futurebird
> There is no benefit to anyone on the left being on twitter.
I have accounts for #PrisonAbolition there and here. There is a large community over there, and almost none here. I only post about that here, in my attempt to get folks over here. But until that happens I need to maintain that account over there.
I've been listening to The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.
I knew the situation was so bad. I knew about policing and mandatory minimums. That doesn't even scratch the surface. It's multiple layers bad, entrenched bad. And the system is thoroughly inoculated against ever being improved. OMG so bad.
I suggest that everyone with half an inclination read it. And tell everyone who doesn't have an inclination what's in there.
Prison Column: From an environmental prisoner
Freedom continues its regular prison column with an update from Jan Goodey who is currently serving a six-month sentence for blocking the M25 with Just Stop Oil.