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there may be twice as many people suffering from mental illness who are in jails and prisons than there are in all psychiatric hospitals in the United States combined.1
“trans people of color constitute the group most likely to be arrested and imprisoned. Racism provides the fuel for maintenance, reproduction, and expansion of the prison-industrial complex.”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
“The most immediate question today is how to prevent the further expansion of prison populations and how to bring as many imprisoned women and men as possible back into what prisoners call “the free world.”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
“If we don’t transform our sorrows and longings, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, neglect.”
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“As private prison companies have long recognized, the most profitable sector of the prison-industrial complex is immigrant detention and deportation.”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
“The FBI is attempting to persuade people, it seems to me, who are the grandchildren of Assata’s generation—and mine as well—to turn away from struggles to end police violence, to dismantle the prison-industrial complex, struggles to end violence against women, struggles to end the occupation of Palestine, struggles to defend the rights of immigrants here and abroad.”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
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