Backing a person who is already in a great deal of mental anguish and pain into a corner, theoretical and physical, is a recipe for disaster. Prisons do nothing but encourage those within them to reoffend if they ever get out, for the outside world offered them nothing to begin with and the prisons inflict upon them some kind of Stockholm syndrome. They end up living to reoffend so as not to have to live in the societal conditions we’ve subjected them to. People who have faced or are facing prison deserve respect, dignity, and rehabilitation. Otherwise we are, in a sense, “asking for it” when they react violently to the trauma of being locked away like caged animals.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Kirsten Larsen
Prisons are leathery not doing what they purport to do; they are not rehabilitating people who have committed crimes and they house many people who committed no crimes.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Anonymous
As someone who is assigned female at birth, prisons are scary for women, especially when imprisoned alongside men who can be convicted of sexual assault
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Maria Joaquim
The criminal justice system is not accountability. We incarcerate people in the worst conditions, where their condemnation is institutionalized and their rehabilitation is never prioritized. Prisons do not keep up safe.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Mara
prisons don't solve the issues that cause harm. (issues being poverty, patriarchy, racism, exploitation, borders etc)
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Max
People aren't given any opportunities upon release, so inevitably many turn back to crime.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Monica Estrada
I believe that prisons are necessary for very violent people and the criminally insane. I do not agree with individuals making a profit off people and their families.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Callie Weston
Prisons close off parts of a town. Few people go in on a daily basis. Those locked in cannot come out. Behind prison walls are people who we can have no contact with. We do not know how the prisoners are being treated. Unknowingly we, as residents of the town, interact with those who are holding prisoners captive. In so doing we are validating what they are doing. Conversely we are making those inside feel like lepers. We know nothing about them but surely hey feel shunned, unable to express themselves. There is fear on all sides.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Anonymous
They create monsters, if someone is not a monster when they go in...theres a good chance they will be a monster when they get out.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Sara Henry Thomas
If it were a perfect system, and it’s not, reservoir that is a prison might be holding those inclined toward dangerous behavior only holds them for so long, releasing them with fewer resources and more desperation than they had before. Putting a person in a cage does not improve anybody’s life.
Bailey Franklin
Backing a person who is already in a great deal of mental anguish and pain into a corner, theoretical and physical, is a recipe for disaster. Prisons do nothing but encourage those within them to reoffend if they ever get out, for the outside world offered them nothing to begin with and the prisons inflict upon them some kind of Stockholm syndrome. They end up living to reoffend so as not to have to live in the societal conditions we’ve subjected them to. People who have faced or are facing prison deserve respect, dignity, and rehabilitation. Otherwise we are, in a sense, “asking for it” when they react violently to the trauma of being locked away like caged animals.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Kirsten Larsen
Prisons are leathery not doing what they purport to do; they are not rehabilitating people who have committed crimes and they house many people who committed no crimes.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Anonymous
As someone who is assigned female at birth, prisons are scary for women, especially when imprisoned alongside men who can be convicted of sexual assault
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Maria Joaquim
The criminal justice system is not accountability. We incarcerate people in the worst conditions, where their condemnation is institutionalized and their rehabilitation is never prioritized. Prisons do not keep up safe.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Mara
prisons don't solve the issues that cause harm. (issues being poverty, patriarchy, racism, exploitation, borders etc)
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Max
People aren't given any opportunities upon release, so inevitably many turn back to crime.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Monica Estrada
I believe that prisons are necessary for very violent people and the criminally insane. I do not agree with individuals making a profit off people and their families.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Callie Weston
Prisons close off parts of a town. Few people go in on a daily basis. Those locked in cannot come out. Behind prison walls are people who we can have no contact with. We do not know how the prisoners are being treated. Unknowingly we, as residents of the town, interact with those who are holding prisoners captive. In so doing we are validating what they are doing. Conversely we are making those inside feel like lepers. We know nothing about them but surely hey feel shunned, unable to express themselves. There is fear on all sides.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Anonymous
They create monsters, if someone is not a monster when they go in...theres a good chance they will be a monster when they get out.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
Sara Henry Thomas
If it were a perfect system, and it’s not, reservoir that is a prison might be holding those inclined toward dangerous behavior only holds them for so long, releasing them with fewer resources and more desperation than they had before. Putting a person in a cage does not improve anybody’s life.
11:11 AM | April 5, 2016
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