From Mass Imprisonment to Abolition (USP): Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

The reality of prisons today is that they operate less in the rehabilitative mode of Quaker ideals than in a retributive mode that has long been practiced and promoted in the South of the USA (and in other countries that are still carrying the burden of their slaveholder society past. In those ex-slaveholder societies, at least, prisons trace their lineage back not so much to the penitentiaries, but to slave plantations and the brutal repression exercised by white masters over non-white others. White supremacy is the underlying principle, and racial domination is the real end of it all. As Michelle Alexander says: "The system of mass incarceration works to trap African Americans in a virtual (and literal) cage." In the United States, blacks are incarcerated seven times as often as whites. As Adam Gropnik summarizes in his wonderful article on The Caging of America (2012):