#abolish prison

[radicalgraff]

"Pigeons Against Prisons"

Spotted in U-District, Seattle, Washington

[heterorealism]

[firespirited]

To note: Prisoner review in Scotland is currently a mess due to transphobes and transphobic panic caused directly by J K Rowling and the tabloids boosting misinformation.

These are specialized review boards whose job is to weigh the danger to individual prisoners vs the danger to all prisoners and assess placement and extra freedoms within prison. The assessment is based on how a prisoner is being threatened and has been attacked vs their previous behaviour on the outside and behaviour in prison.

It’s not the public’s job to be judge, jury and executioner and it’s not the public’s job to decide prisoner placement. And yet here we are, Scotland’s prisoner assessments are currently ground to a halt because of public “outcry” over risks that are already absolutely taken into account because a mob would like rapists and murderers to be tortured and possibly murdered by other prisoners rather than respect their human rights and the sentence they have been given (which is to be locked up... not tortured and killed). And while the assessment system is paused, trans women who did not commit violent crimes are trapped in male prison and women who are a danger to other women are not being segregated.

I care deeply about women in prison, I care deeply when human rights are being violated even when it’s a bad person because it’s setting precedent for it to go ignored when it happens to good people and it’s already happening to good people: trans and gender non-conforming women, women with physical and mental disabilities, women who committed taboo crimes while in the throes of post-partum or under coercive control, women of colour, muslim women. If you think we’re all nurturing and nice to each other I have to wonder what kind of sheltered childhood you had. Bullying is part of prison culture because it’s full of damaged people struggling to regain some control. Assessment allows us to give different levels of social access to people who need it and will benefit from social contact. We reduce bullying by building community and giving ringleaders like white supremacists or religious nuts limited influence.

Ideally we change the prison system completely, the women there have few ways of repaying their debt or building new lives. You have to understand that it undermines the reforms we’re trying to make happen when fake feminists harass prison officials over made up stories.

This is tangible misuse of a large platform to galvanize an angry mob with only partial information. I blame the tabloids who make money off the outrage of weaponized half-truths and made up monsters but you can also draw a direct line back to Mrs “I’m just the nice lady like you who wrote the children’s books” who’s actually been living in luxury writing mediocre pulp crime novels for the past decade.

There have been other tangible real life harms, the Mermaids charity for example. This is the current one. Not hypothetical links that may or may not lead back to hateful rhetoric: You buying merch makes that delusional woman think she’s supported and continues to lead a hateful mob in harassment campaigns instead of fading to irrelevance as that strange lady who tweets angry things at Nicola Sturgeon who is trying to do what’s best for Scotland while Tory England treats Scottish people like trash.

Hey look at that, a progressive woman who’s having to fight powerful men and who’s being dragged through the dirt right now as we’re in a historic moment for Scotland getting some rights over their own taxes and laws. Would be mighty useful to conservatives and the patriarchy if a high profile celeb trashing her was also a woman. 🤔🤔🤔

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[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"Envision a world without prisons" Graphic by @paulscanty based on an old IWW poster by Ralph Chaplin

[hellyeahanarchistposters]

‘Incarceration is the pandemic’

[rosarenn]

But it should be remembered that the ancestors of many of today's most ardent liberals could not have imagined life without slavery, life without lynching, or life without segregation.

Angela Davis “Are Prisons Obsolete?”

[radicalgraff]

"Abolish Prisons"

Seen in Quebec City