Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
I know prisons from the inside.
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.