#abolishprison

This isn't what I usually write about, but I think it's important.

~Mod S

When I was first learning about prison abolition, the one question I had was, what would we do with the violent abusers? Prisons itself are the problem of abuse. We need to fix the problem of abuse and violence in itself, but that will never be possible if prisons are still standing. Prisons, courts, our justice system let a abusers get away with their action, and on the their hand, they inflict more violence and abuse and it becomes a never ending cycle. Being an abolitionist means to uncover and fix these deeper problems in our society, instead of using prison as a short term problem fixer, because as long as prisons are around, there will be no solution to the deeper problems inflicted on our communities. The prison industrial complex itself thrives off of violence, so how do we expect this to be a solution for abuse? 

#abolishprison