"When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison."
"In the twenty-first century, antiprison activists insist that a fundamental requirement for the revitalization of democracy is the long-overdue abolition of the prison system."
"That is, deviant men have been constructed as criminal, while deviant women have been constructed as insane."
"The notion that female 'deviance' always has a sexual dimension persists in the contemporary era, and this intersection of criminality and sexuality continues to be racialized."
"But throughout the history of the U.S. prison system, prisoners have always constituted a potential source of profit."
"A major challenge of this movement is to do the work that will create more humane, habitable environments for people in prison without bolstering the permanence of the prison system."
"the only full alternative is building the kind of society that does not need prisons: A decent redistribution of power and income so as to put out the hidden fire of burning envy that now flames up in crimes of property - both burglary by the poor and embezzlement by the affluent. And a decent sense of community that can support, reintegrate and truly rehabilitate those who suddenly become filled with fury or despair, and that can face them not as objects - 'criminals' - but as people who have committed illegal acts, as have almost all of us." - Arthur Waskow, Institute for Policy Studies
"Rather, positing decarceration as our overarching strategy, we would try to envision a continuum of alternatives to imprisonment - demilitarization of schools, revitalization of education at all levels, a health system that provides free physical and mental care to all, and a justice system based on reparation and reconciliation rather than retribution and vengeance."
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