Status Updates From Are Prisons Obsolete?

Prisoners were medical experimented on until 1974. After WW2, this helped boost the pharmaceutical industry.

Prison I did trial complex is a system that transforms bodies, mostly bodies of color, into profit

Sexual assault of I mated by officers is not punished or corrected. It functions as an accepted (not the right word) form of punishment with how little it is meaningfully reprimanded/punished.

Female prisoners are sexually violated by officers with FREQUENCY in prisons. Officers use their power and hand out punishments and privileges/rewards based on inmates willingness to engage in sexual behavior with them.

Native Americans are incarcerated at incredibly disproportionate rates, especially women. Davis puts forward that this is to keep them under a colonial system

Women tended to be sentenced for ño get sentences. The argument being: men are being sent to prisons for punishment. women are being sent to reformatories to be reformed and trained, which takes more time. They’re not serving time proportional to their crime. They’re serving as long as it takes to be reformed.

Black women more likely to be sentenced to men’s prisons. More likely to have experienced the horrors of convict leading

Domestic cottage structure for women’s prisons, with an emphasis on teaching women domestic skills in the name of reform. This was to make good proper wives. For poor, often women of color, inmates, this served as training for domestic servitude

Enslaved women being hypersexualized to justify SA perpetrated by slave masters mirrors hypersexualization of inmates who experience SA at the hands of jail staff

Black women have always been punished differently than while women, dating back to slavery. See: pregnant women