«THE PRISON cannot be understood if not as a repressive tool of the governing
apparatus, through which it strengthens its power. Likewise, we can affirm thatit arises from the need for that power to control the people, from the need toregulate it, to order it, to keep it, in short, under conditional freedom,subject to a penal code, with the constant threat of imprisonment. hanging overhis head." XOSE TARRIO ---- The state's punitive institution par excellence isprison, a hierarchical structure of domination and deprivation of liberty onwhich the capitalist economic system is sustained. They exist with the aim ofreform, although 2 out of 3 prisoners commit a crime again when they go out onthe street, and 8 out of 10 people who have set foot in a cell at the age of 20will do so at least four more times in the past. throughout his life. The failureof the supposed social rehabilitation is clear. And it is also that, who is theState to allow itself to rehabilitate an individual violating his freedom andautonomy? The principle of rehabilitation is a deliberate form of interference bythe State, to reeducate individuals that power and capital consider problematic.The punitive institution of the State par excellence is the prison, ahierarchical structure of domination and deprivation of liberty on which thecapitalist economic system is sustained."9 out of 10 crimes could be attributed, directly or indirectly, to our economicand social inequities, to our ruthless system of exploitation and theft"(Goldman). And this collateral damage is the problem.We are experiencing the rise of the discourse of zero tolerance against crime,which is actually class cleansing and the penalization of misery (Muñoz). Largelythanks to the pornography of security: chronicles of moral panic, morbidcommodification of intolerable facts... that result in the demand for forcefulresponses that feed back the criminal discourse of the State and its hardening(Muñagorri).While we look the other way, prisons kill and criminalize millions of peoplethroughout the world. This goes for all of them, and for all the broken bodies,who died as victims of social revenge.https://www.cnt.es/noticias/injusticia-violencia-y-represion/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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