#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #VictoriaLaw, author of "#CorridorsOfContagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of #Incarceration."

Law describes in harrowing detail how state neglect and #carceralAbuse amplified the ravages of #Covid19 in the US prison system

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic

#USprisons #USpol #prisons #prisonIndustrialComplex #socialMurder #Covid19USA #books @bookstodon

Here's @davidallengreen thought experiment on the structure of the UK's prison system; a prison system that as he points out is really set up on, and works to a dysfunctional response to crime & criminals.

However, the view of punishment (rather than rehabilitation) that it encompasses has too many proponents for an alternative to establish itself as the political ground for reform.

#prisons #crime #politics

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-real-problem-which-blights-our

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“Here is a thought-experiment: imagine that you have asked some mischievous demon to conceive the most counter-productive way of dealing with crime. What fiendish scheme would this diabolic agent devise? “The demon could suggest a system where offenders are kept together with more serious and experienced criminals for months or years, and so can learn from them; where the offender is taken away from any gainful employment and social support or family network; where the offender is put in places where drugs and brutality are rife; where the infliction of a penalty can make the offender more, and not less, likely to re-offend; and where all this is done at extraordinary expense for the taxpayer. “A system, in other words, very much like the prison system we now have in England and Wales, as well as in many other jurisdictions.”

Discussion with producers of documentary "The Alabama Solution"
#prisons #Alabama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saWfTjQe9ps

From the light of freedom to a concrete tomb,
The fall was great and swift.
My soul cried out in a mighty boom,
How could it come to this?

Clamped down, trapped stuck,
Paralyzed in a tiny cage.
Had fate left me not a drop of luck?
Was there reason for this rage?

Told to lay down and die,
Something deep inside me stirred.
I can’t be caged I have to fly!
Not yet am I interred.

They can take my body, tie me down,
It matters not a bit.
My spirit still runs wild and free,
So in freedom here I sit.

~ Ross Ulbricht
Apr 30, 2024

It seems his artistic vision finally became reality.

sources

https://freeross.org/uncageable/

https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/uncageable-poem-and-drawing

#RossUlbricht #DreadPirateRoberts #SilkRoad #USCourts #CriminalJustice #Prisons #Prisoners #Poetry #News #Crypto #Poem #FreeRoss

@poetry@a.gup.pe @poets@a.gup.pe @writers@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.