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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

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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.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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