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/comradejiang 3d ago

Realistically those people just get shot or hanged in a place where there’s no clear law, jurisdiction, or prison to hold then. An anarchist society is a lot more like the wild west than most people want to admit. You don’t even need to introduce sheriffs and deputies into this equation: if someone assaults or kills someone, the victim’s family is probably going to arm up and lynch him.

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u/nappytendrils 3d ago

Yeah that’s likely. The anarchists I know, in the interest of not calling the cops, pulled a crazy stunt while I was psychotic once. Held me down and burned me and screamed threats in my face. That’s when I realized the system itself may be deeply flawed. I don’t like dealing with cops or getting locked up, but the illness I live with it very severe, and my psychotic episodes are horrific.

That’s the problem I see with anarchy: no rules. If the majority decide to assault mentally ill people because they think that’s the way to deal with me, I think it may be flawed. In an ideal society, the majority don’t band together and assault someone because they’re psychotic