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Mar 4, 2020 · Prisons damage people and have always been used by the powerful to control the most marginalized. But can society really do away with incarceration altogether? Kelsey Mohamed and Andrew Neilson go head to head.
Oct 6, 2022 · Should Prison Be Abolished? ‘Most of the world doesn’t use prison in nearly the same way that we do in the US,’ says Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler. ‘Yet most of those countries are least as safe as the US—and many are much safer.’
Jul 22, 2024 · In response, a movement has begun for the abolition of prisons—not for prison reform, with fewer inmates in better institutions, but for the outright elimination of incarceration, on the...
Feb 23, 2021 · By Noah Berlatsky. Skeptics often argue that abolishing the police and our prison system is impractical. How will you stop people from murdering if there aren’t any police? How will you...
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Apr 17, 2019 · Prisons not only have violated human rights and failed at rehabilitation; it’s not even clear that prisons deter crime or increase public safety.
Jun 19, 2019 · As career criminal justice experts, they thought they could isolate a prison system from its context: tax, housing, health care, education, transportation, immigration and other policies.
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Dec 7, 2022 · America’s prisons are grossly dehumanizing and unjust. The eminent political philosopher Tommie Shelby debates prison abolition and what kind of radical change justice demands.
