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A modern version of reductionism is the movement for "justice reinvestment" ( Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson, Kevin Wong 2013). Here the focus is explicitely on re-directing the funds spent on prisons in a more reasonable direction (community alternatives, education). "The question should be 'What can be done to strengthen the capacity of high incarceration neighborhoods to keep their residents out of prison?' not "Where should we send this individual'" (Tucker/Cadora 2003). | A modern version of reductionism is the movement for "justice reinvestment" ( Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson, Kevin Wong 2013). Here the focus is explicitely on re-directing the funds spent on prisons in a more reasonable direction (community alternatives, education). "The question should be 'What can be done to strengthen the capacity of high incarceration neighborhoods to keep their residents out of prison?' not "Where should we send this individual'" (Tucker/Cadora 2003). | ||
=== Radical | === Radical normalization === | ||
This means reducing the total character of carceral institutions. While reductionism usually focusses on imprisonment rates, i.e. the quantitative side of imprisonment, here the stress is 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. Why should imprisoned citizens not have normal voting right? Why should imprisoned workers not be paid regular salaries? 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. In a similar vein Hedda Giertsen calls for "Tuning down prisons": placing responsibility where it should be, in the ordinary public services, as it is for other citizens (Giertsen 2015, 292). | This means reducing the total character of carceral institutions. While reductionism usually focusses on imprisonment rates, i.e. the quantitative side of imprisonment, here the stress is 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. Why should imprisoned citizens not have normal voting right? Why should imprisoned workers not be paid regular salaries? 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. In a similar vein Hedda Giertsen calls for "Tuning down prisons": placing responsibility where it should be, in the ordinary public services, as it is for other citizens" (Giertsen 2015, 292). | ||
=== Segmentary abolition === | === Segmentary abolition === | ||