People who run prisons know they intend to do us harm. The proof? They put fences around these places before we ever get here. The reason they put the fences up is, they know they intend to harm us, and they know that any reasonable person would try to run away.\u00a0They aren’t “helping” us or making us “better” people. They’re hurting us. They’re making us less likely to succeed. And they know it.\u00a0So that means people who run prisons know they are making future crime more likely, not less. They know they are creating future crime, future victims, future imprisonment, future losses for society all the way around.\u00a0If they were helping us, if they believed they were helping us, they wouldn’t put the fences up. They wouldn’t need fences. If they offered us wisdom and skills and empowerment, we’d all stay violently. There would be no need for a fence.\u00a0You don’t put fences around a pizza party. You put fences around a torture factory.
They know how to help us. They could help us and empower us if they wanted to. People go into basic training in the military and leave there after 8 weeks, instilled with a whole new way of living, a whole new sense of themselves, a whole new vision and set of skills.\u00a0Our sentences are longer than eight weeks. We leave prison without all that wonderful stuff that only takes eight weeks.\u00a0They would help us if they really wanted to apply the science of that they know.\u00a0They don’t want to.\u00a0They want things the way they are.\u00a0They profit off of human suffering.\u00a0If they are protecting the public from us, who protects the public from them? Maybe the responsibility falls to us to take them down.\u00a0There’s that fence. We’re locked in here with them. We might as well do something to change the world.\u00a0We outnumber them.\u00a0~Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
People who run prisons know they intend to do us harm. The proof? They put fences around these places before we ever get here. The reason they put the fences up is, they know they intend to harm us, and they know that any reasonable person would try to run away.\u00a0They aren’t “helping” us or … Continue reading Fences<\/span>