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The movement to abolish prisons once and for all as a means of punishment is not very visible today, to say the least. To find convinced prison abolitionists one has to turn to the usual suspects like the Quaker community and similar religious groups. Outside of their realm, the small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Black_Cross Anarchist Black Cross] continues its frail existence. | The movement to abolish prisons once and for all as a means of punishment is not very visible today, to say the least. To find convinced prison abolitionists one has to turn to the usual suspects like the Quaker community and similar religious groups. Outside of their realm, the small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Black_Cross Anarchist Black Cross] continues its frail existence. | ||
=== Arguments === | |||
*Sociological arguments for prison abolition include the outdatedness of incarceration as a means of social control in an age of digital surveillance - a position maybe best spelled out by French philosophers Michel Foucault (1975) and Gilles Deleuze (1992). | |||
There are sociological, pragmatic, and moral arguments in favour of abolition. claiming that incarcerpose prisons because they house non-violent offenders (e.g., thieves and swindlers instead of just murderers and rapists), incarcerate mainly poor people and ethnic minorities, and do not generally rehabilitate criminals, in many cases making them worse.[citation needed] As a result, the prison abolition movement often is associated with humanistic socialism, anarchism and anti-authoritarianism. | |||
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