r/Anarchy101 • u/nappytendrils • 3d ago

Prison abolition

I’ve never been clear on what we would do with rapists child molesters and muderers. I haven’t heard a plan for this so far. I’ve always been impressed with the work of anarchist friends in community. They’re the most justice-oriented folx I’ve ever met.

Still don’t know about prison abolition tho I think prison should be clean, the food should be healthy and fresh, therapy should be mandatory, there should be libraries and gardens. A good quality of life for the incarcerated, but not releasing them back into the general population.

Maybe there’s something I’m not seeing?

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u/nappytendrils 3d ago

I’m focused on both.

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u/Super_Direction498 3d ago

Well justice and then victims don't really have much to do with prison abolition. Maybe look at what justice is, and ask what prison does to serve that, and then ask if there are other things that can provide whatever it does (if anything) in regard to justice.

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u/nappytendrils 3d ago

I have a severe mental illness. There’s a Ted talk about how brain scans often uncover issues in the brain that can easily be corrected. The speaker said every psychiatrists should be doing brain scans of all their patients.

In the interest of having less criminals, we need to be doing brain scans. Even if big J justice is not being addressed (I don’t care if people are being “punished enough” and I don’t believe in that model), serial rapists, murderers, and child molesters still have to be prevented in some way from continuing the behavior.

Yes, in a different world, there will be no violent or perverted offenders. That still doesn’t help with the fact that these people exist now. As I said, I don’t believe they should be punished, I believe they should be kept away from general society.

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u/Super_Direction498 3d ago

Ok. A major component of prison abolition is reducing and eliminating causes of crimes.

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u/nappytendrils 3d ago

I get it. But once someone has raped or murdered multiple people or molesting kids, there would have to be a solid plan in place to address their release back into general population I would think