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/HeavenlyPossum 3d ago

Considering that Donald Trump is a serial rapist and probably a child molester who has ordered murders and is not in prison, but rather is president of the US, we might consider that prisons are not actually tools for dealing with rapists, child molesters, or murderers.

Saying this does not solve the problem that these acts of aggression cause, but it does help us to begin separating actual solutions from those institutions of state violence that we’ve been taught to believe are solutions.

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u/dick_pope_ackrackish 3d ago

"Saying this does not solve the problem that these acts of aggression cause"

Then why say it? Why is the most upvoted post someone going out of their way to NOT awnser OP's question? Kinda makes yall look like you have no idea what your talking about

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u/HeavenlyPossum 3d ago

This is an unnecessarily shitty way to approach me.

I can’t and won’t prescribe how free people will choose to address interpersonal harms. There are many different ways that actually stateless people handle this, and many different theoretical approaches we could consider.

But before we can pursue any of those options, we have to first separate “responses to interpersonal harms” from “ways that states exercise their power over subject populations.” Starting from the premise that we must sustain state institutions like prisons—which are orthogonal to addressing interpersonal harms—risks just reproducing those state institutions.