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“if we don’t have prisons, what do we do with violent criminals, rapists and murderers?”

idk but how about we don’t subject them to inhumane living conditions, deprive them of basic healthcare, expose them to physical and sexual abuse, or compel them into forced labor?

how about investing in an actual rehabilitative mode of justice that isn’t designed to encourage recidivism and where people have the opportunity to be taught to function safely and effectively among others, even if that process has to happen away from the bulk of society?

how about creating an adequate social safety net for survivors of physical and sexual violence to grieve and recover from trauma without having to worry about keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table?

how about fostering the strong social bonds that have been destroyed by capitalism so that people can actually have a supporting community and, like, care about each other’s wellbeing?

how about dismantling structural and institutional motivators or enablers of violence and abuse–especially a nuclear family that isolates children and exposes them to predators?

idk y’all i’m probably the wrong person to ask and smarter people than me have thought and written about this but like there are other answers here

@keys-close-doors: And then I’m over here like… fuck them have them rot

does anyone else ever want to see a Venn diagram of ‘people who support the prison system’ and ‘people who’ve never known someone who’s been to jail’ or like is that just me

While I agree wholeheartedly with what is being said, some criminals absolutely do not deserve humane living conditions. (Rapists, pedophiles, people that like to torture others, etc.) They deserve straight up death.

if you’re going to enter into a conversation about post-carceral justice with a list of people you personally think deserve to be executed, you should probably find another conversation.

So, let me get this straight. You think someone who enjoys hurting others, who enjoys to rape children or burn down buildings or do any number of other horrible things, deserves to be treated well? 
While I agree that petty thieves or people who have been raised on violence should absolutely be treated the same as anyone else, someone who exists to do nothing but hurt others absolutely does not.

if you can’t spot any difference between ‘treated well’ and ‘not deprived of healthcare or compelled into forced labor within a system designed specifically to enslave black people following the 13th amendment’; and if you seriously believe there are people who just exist solely to deserve being executed with zero context or qualification, we have nothing to talk about.

also, like, yeah this post is explicitly about criminalized violence. first sentence.