Against Prisons: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

This means gradually reducing the total character of carceral institutions. While reductionism usually focusses on imprisonment rates, i.e. the quantitative side of imprisonment, de-totalizing focusses on the "depth" of imprisonment (Downes), i.e. the prison conditions. If imprisonment is to be nothing more than the deprivation of liberty (European Prison Rules), the situation within prisons should approach "normal" living and working conditions as much as possible. When we demand for prisoners normal rights as citizens and workers, the inner logic of such demands points to a gradual abolition of prisons as we know them (Mitford 1973). Even the deprivation of liberty itself allows for gradation in terms of more or less open prisons.