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Im so locked in

I was locked in on page 5!!!!

Update I did NOT finish this…. I barely listened to it! I am back in line at the library. To be continued!

Literally pray for me because I checked this out from the library and it is a 48-hour long audio book. the line for it is long so I have 11 days to listen to 45 more hours lol

Learn more about restorative justice

We need to decriminalize activities and also communities that are typically criminalized

DECRIMINALIZE DRUG USE

Envision an array of alternatives to the carceral system. Symbolist to abolishing the police.

Don’t incarcerate mentally I’ll people, treat them

Abolish prisons: engage in a mindset where punishment is not the response to crime. Demilitarize schools, as they are the main conduits to prison.

I WILL finish this tomorrow

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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