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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
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.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.
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.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.