The #US #legal system is not at all about #justice, but about justifying our #carceral #PrisonIndustrialComplex which imprisons people at a much higher rate than any other country—about as many as #China—while, obscenely, inhumanely, and unjustly, creating massive #profits for both "#PrivatePrison" #corporations and contractors for #government-run #jails and #prisons.

Our entire system must be rebuilt, and #courtrooms need to be included in that process.

https://youtu.be/gHA7jEm9xMA?si=1SOAsvoKUwJq0Vh-

That’s a bottom line question: is there some way to order society such that even those who are biochemically predisposed to what we call sociopathy or psychopathy can fit in? Is there some natural variation of the human psyche which is inherently intolerable to the rest of a working society? Is #utopia possible? Is the best we can do a #carceral state, broad capital punishment, or penal colonies? Do we need internal predators to stay sharp as a species?

Hard problems… https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/110606537549749652

►► https://alter1fo.com/parloir-sauvage-centre-penitentiaire-pour-femmes-rennes-138992
#rennes #carceral

finally, wrote about the GOP's war on #schoollunches, which is steeped in #carceral logic. #BenShapiro wants to police kids, not give them help, because he hates helping people and fears feeding the #hungry will reduce #inequity. https://www.editorialboard.com/punish-the-hungry/

I wonder if as #abolitionists we should see failures of the #carceral justice system to charge the cops who lynch Black kids as opportunities to demonstrate better methods eg #RestorativeJustice. That sounds ghoulishly opportunistic but it's certainly healthier than than the state's answer. Engage the killer cops in conversations about their part in mending the injury they've done to the #community. This seems like the appropriate abolitionist response to me but I can see a lot of ways where it could be really dangerous and counterproductive.

#acab #abolition

These are the problems we find when govt requires so much control and oversight they lose sight of the goals you’d find in their guidance docs and strategy docs of supporting health and QOL.

Reminds me of many readings about #carceral spaces and #colonialism. That patronizing path that institutions can do things better. Even as we speak now about the expertise in ‘lived experience’ and how ‘community knows best’, we so often lose this in practice.

“States of Incarceration is that rare thing among books of its type: openly militant, yet thoughtful and self-aware, opting for even-handedness and sober self-assessment rather than the tired sloganeering typical of left-wing activism, or the edifying lyricism of defeat.”

#carceral #state #GeorgeFloyd #rebellion #abolition #racialcapitalism

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/abolition-after-the-george-floyd-rebellion-on-jarrod-shanahan-and-zhandarka-kurtis-states-of-incarceration/

texte écrit après la mort de #Nicous en #prison par Romain Dumont, cinéaste, qui s'interroge sur le mutisme des artistes à propos de la condition déplorable faite aux détenus au #Québec

Iels ont joué dans Unité9, mais ensuite...

« Une société est aussi moderne et humaniste que ses prisons. La façon dont une population traite ses détenus en dit énormément sur celle-ci »

le Québec est une société rétrograde et arriérée quand on constate l'état de ses geôles et l'indifférence de la population

#mortendetention #Justice #Carcéral

https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/libre-opinion/776598/libre-opinion-une-societe-a-l-image-de-ses-prisons

Using Amazon's #Rekognition technology, #Spotlight use the moralising narrative of humanitarian uses to extend #carceral networks, putting marginalised consenting #sexworkers at-large (and their networks) at further risk, while expanding policing powers. The excuse is stopping child trafficking, but the practical applications show an expansion of the hostile terrain–featuring tech-augmented police harassment–that endangers folx in the first place. Sarah is one of many.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/12/09/amazon-ashton-kutcher-sex-work-surveillance/

#Carceral
#carousel

Today I got to moderate a panel at the UMass #Boston Women’s Policy Conference on #GunViolence. Our focus was on creating holistic models of policy, programs, and practices that move us away from #carceral responses and instead address root causes. Invest in care and communities, not in incarceration.

Canada’s prison system continues to punish Black and Indigenous people, by Stephen Wentzell
«Un rapport récent du Bureau de l'enquêteur correctionnel montre que les mêmes obstacles systémiques identifiés il y a près de dix ans, notamment la discrimination et les préjugés raciaux, restent aussi répandus et persistants que jamais.
Le traitement des Noirs et des Autochtones dans les prisons fédérales canadiennes ne s'est pas amélioré au cours de la dernière décennie. À bien des égards, il a empiré.»
#racismesystémique #racisme #carceral #blm #indigenous #autochtones #prison
https://rabble.ca/human-rights/prison-system-punishes-black-indigenous-people/

Hello 👋 I'm exploring to see if I might fit in around here.

I'm a survivor artist, activist & academic. I write about my experiences of trauma, madness & survival, share mad art & critique psychiatry rather a lot.

Hoping to connect with folks who care about:

* Survivor-led, peer communities
* #MadStudies
* #AntiOppressive care
* #CriticalPsychiatry, #carceral systems, #abolition
* Growing alternative, liberatory approaches to #healing & justice

#introduction #artist #activist #trauma

#coloniality #madstudies #criticaldisabilitystudies #racism #carceral #criminaljustice #migration #immigration #socialwork

#introduction Hello! I’m mainly over at @dawnd@mastadon.social right now, trying to figure this all out. I am a #book #editor at University of North Carolina Press (@uncpress). I work with #scholars writing books on #history (hi #histodons 👋🏼), #BlackStudies, #AfricanAmericanHistory, #BlackFeminist studies, #girlhood studies, #socialjustice issues, and #carceral studies. I acquire three series in collaboration with series editors: Justice, Power, and Politics; Boundless South; and Black Women’s History. I have broad acquisitions interests in the #humanities and #socialsciences!

Hi, I'm #newhere, trying out Mastodon for the first time after being pretty active on #lawtwitter!

I'm a #civilrights attorney who works on diminishing societal reliance on #carceral systems – #police, #jails, #prisons, #ICE detention, #surveillance, and supervision – in ways that will strengthen low-income and immigrant #AAPI communities. Previously, I worked for the #ACLU on divesting from police and reinvesting in communities.

#law #lawyers #lawfedi

Soirée de soutien dans le cadre de la semaine internationale de solidarité avec les prisonnier-e-s politiques

https://paris-luttes.info/soiree-de-soutien-dans-le-cadre-de-7905

Lancement de la semaine internationale de solidarité avec les prisonniè-re-s politiques. Le Collectif Contre Culture s’associe avec cette semaine en y participant pour la journée d’ouverture.
#prisons #carceral #liberté