In the United States (the prison capital of the world), prisons are nothing more than the spiritual successor to slavery in all but name. They are a racist institution in a country that was openly founded on colonialism and genocide.
"But whatabout the really bad™ people???"
See the post, and also CW: Reality. Donald The Fucking Nazi Rapist Trump is a free man, and he will always be a free man, and if he does see "prison," it will be all for show in some country club "prison," not with the rest of us normies. Joseph Biden has more blood on his hands than the worst serial killer in history, and he's the fucking president! And he's also got a protective circle of brainwashed individuals defending him!
You think really bad™ people go to prison? Only if they're also part of a marginalized group. The prison system was never intended to address actual injustice, unless that "injustice" is one of the things referenced in the post.
This is still a step up from the people who cast judgment on them, and the people who would displace them (NIMBYs). And there are a lot of groups that work to provide things like food, tents, and warm sleeping bags, but the system frequently responds with violence, with cities passing ordinances against them, and police cruelly breaking them down.
This post is about how we need to abolish them entirely. Saying American prisons "fall short" seems really dismissive of how deliberately cruel they are, and how they are racist institutions used to subjugate and enslave.
Yes, by abolishing prisons and the police