Status Updates From Are Prisons Obsolete?

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“If the supply dries up, or too many are released too early, their profits are affected…Longer prison terms mean greater profits, but the larger point is that the profit motive promotes the expansion of imprisonment.”

The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers.