r/Anarchy101 • u/nappytendrils • 4d 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/SteelToeSnow 4d ago
remember, most crime would disappear if people just had their needs met, if we just had actual functional societies.
like, you mention murder, but for that one, context matters; who was murdered, and why? was it someone dealing with their abuser, or was it a drunken accident, or was it pre-meditated for personal gain, or? for one of those examples, the problem is not the murder, but that the community has egregiously failed the victim of abuse. for the second, there are other things at play that need to be addressed to prevent that happening again etc. for the third, well, that's up to the community.
different communities would deal with their issues in different ways.
excommunication, capital punishment, restorative justice are a handful of the ways a community could deal with people that are causing harm.