Reflection #5- Davis, A. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex, Sudbury, J. Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex
The prison system is one topic of conversation that is mind boggling to me. Prisons, jails, detention centers, and the rest were made to get those who committed a crime and were found guilty of this crime to own up to this mistake and do their time. It was not a place intended to have cram filled all the time, for those who are innocent, or to treat those in it anything less than human. They aren’t animals, even though they may have done some unspeakable things they shouldn’t be treated as nothing. It is disgusting to me that private companies want and are marketing towards making money out of these prison systems. They are making money out of the number of inmates they can cram into one building. Who in their right minds makes money out of other’s sufferings? Better yet, they don’t even use this money to put back into the prisons to make living bearable instead in some ways they make it worse. Where is the logic in that? Even worse is the fact that these prisons for women are shaking of my head worthy. Sterilization of women without her consent is not right at all, no matter which way someone tries to spin it. It makes it crueler is that most women who get sterilized in prison have no knowledge that is being done to them on top of them not consenting. It is all levels of unethical and highly cruel. These procedures scar these women and it is a choice that was made for them concerning their bodies violating their body rights. Also, women experience this disrespectful treatment before they make it behind bars and in the court room. According to the articles, women who deal with drug cartels and just get into the wrong crowd get harsher punishments and more time. They are the ones who usually get caught because those in power in these drug rings use females are mules to transport these drugs. Most of those women who are in these situations aren’t there willingly. They are there because they need the money offered or those close to them are being threatened. And yet, in some cases these circumstances aren’t taken into account when these women are caught and are put on trial. Which in my opinion is inconsiderate because with someone on trial whose facing many chargers, those determining if the individual is guilty or not show take into account all aspects. The world we live in is so messed up and people are so money hungry, disrespectful, and just horrible people and they rather screw others over to make themselves better instead of trying to make life wholesome for all.
Agape Arias 10/29/18