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'''Behind the words "failure" and "counterproductive" lies this plain fact, which ought to be confronted and accepted: If our entire criminal justice apparatus were simply closed down, there would be no increase, and there would probably be a decrease in the amount of behavior that is now labeled "criminal." | |||
'''—Gilbert M. Cantor, "An End to Crime and Punishment," The Shingle (1976) 99-114 (105). | |||
It's time to stop talking about reforming prisons and to start working for their complete abolition. That means basically three things: | It's time to stop talking about reforming prisons and to start working for their complete abolition. That means basically three things: | ||
*First, admitting that prisons can't be reformed, since the very nature of prisons requires brutality and contempt for the people imprisoned. | *First, admitting that prisons can't be reformed, since the very nature of prisons requires brutality and contempt for the people imprisoned. | ||
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The abolitionist's task is clear—to prevent the system from masking its true nature. The system dresses itself up: we undress the system. We strip it down to the reality: the cage and the key. We demystify. We ask the simple but central political question: "Who decides?" We raise the moral issue: "By what right?" We challenge the old configurations of power. We begin to change the old, begin to create the new. | The abolitionist's task is clear—to prevent the system from masking its true nature. The system dresses itself up: we undress the system. We strip it down to the reality: the cage and the key. We demystify. We ask the simple but central political question: "Who decides?" We raise the moral issue: "By what right?" We challenge the old configurations of power. We begin to change the old, begin to create the new. | ||
From: | From: | ||
*[https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/chapter1.shtml Instead of Prisons. A Handbook for Abolitionists. Chapter 1: Time to Begin. Voices of Abolition] | *[https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/chapter1.shtml Instead of Prisons. A Handbook for Abolitionists. Chapter 1: Time to Begin. Voices of Abolition] | ||