In Reply to: One day Americans are going to look back at prison like we look back at slavery today. posted by live on 2012-06-19 12:46:13

• One day Americans are going to look back at prison like we look back at slavery today.   -  live  2012-06-19 12:46:13 (110 views)
• There are a lot of people out there in favor of Jail reform, and the topic is being discussesd  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-06-20 13:40:41 (52 views)
• I think your subject line is spot on but why do you say "even the best among us don't care"? You  -  BackseatGM  2012-06-19 21:32:59 (55 views)
• I care, we care, but we're not doing anything about it.  -  live  2012-06-20 10:53:56 (33 views)
• the second anyone touches the issue, it has to be - we need to get tough on criminals  -  DC Warrior  2012-06-20 11:16:24 (56 views)
• California never recovered from Rose Bird   -  Dick Nikon  2012-06-20 13:39:57 (29 views)
• well..still don't care enough   -  Fred  2012-06-20 02:14:58 (27 views)
• more   -  Krieger  2012-06-19 15:47:59 (41 views)
• Outstanding summary lecture on the subject by the leading scholar on the new penality   -  thizness  2012-06-19 20:19:51 (39 views)
• More.   -  live  2012-06-19 15:13:28 (36 views)
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome   -  playmaker  2012-06-19 14:02:38 (46 views)
• The actual book...   -  playmaker  2012-06-19 14:03:57 (38 views)
• plus, what is it that actually stops people from doing crime?   -  DC Warrior  2012-06-19 13:41:48 (42 views)
• It's called teh broken-windows theory. Its a good idea to clean up the city and make it look nice  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-06-20 13:45:00 (34 views)
• Re: financial crimes. I'm a big believer in public shaming.  -  nomad  2012-06-19 14:23:21 (47 views)
• I think you have to find ways to remove the "everybody does it"  -  DC Warrior  2012-06-19 15:17:34 (48 views)
• Yes.   -  nomad  2012-06-19 15:28:07 (35 views)
• +1  -  Max  2012-06-19 13:21:25 (61 views)
• Agree 100%.  -  altamont  2012-06-19 13:13:19 (84 views)
• I spent 5 days in a military prison - it was hell.   -  Fred  2012-06-20 02:13:29 (26 views)
• Agree with your main point, but the expansion of the carceral complex in this country  -  thizness  2012-06-19 13:10:42 (80 views)
• neoliberal leviathan? I thought it was law and order Republicans  -  DC Warrior  2012-06-19 13:35:03 (58 views)
• By neoliberal I don't mean something like left liberal  -  thizness  2012-06-19 13:39:00 (63 views)
• neoliberal is often used to describe "free trade" of the labor cost advantage type   -  CARTIERFROHAWK  2012-06-19 18:33:44 (32 views)
• That may be a technically accurate term but most people will misunderstand  -  DC Warrior  2012-06-19 13:43:15 (56 views)
• Most people have no idea what they mean by conservative or liberal  -  thizness  2012-06-19 13:53:08 (59 views)
• Those terms have no meaning at all any more.  -  Earl j. Slick  2012-06-19 16:08:19 (52 views)
• It's a reference to ideas from different worlds (duality in meaning). Politics/State vs. Economics.   -  Fred  2012-06-20 02:25:00 (26 views)
• You're such a libservative. Or is it consiberal?   -  nomad  2012-06-19 16:25:12 (39 views)
• I'm beginning to embrace fuckallofthemism   -  Earl j. Slick  2012-06-19 17:36:59 (31 views)
• Put. Your. Bentham. On. Your. Head. Step. Away. From. The. Foucault.   -  altamont  2012-06-19 13:14:33 (37 views)
• Ha- quite the opposite in fact  -  thizness  2012-06-19 13:21:57 (62 views)
• The first page of The Scarlet Letter pretty much nails it, imo.  -  altamont  2012-06-19 13:26:18 (78 views)
• Puritanical conceptions of good and evil, of the need for expiation  -  thizness  2012-06-19 13:36:14 (49 views)
• It does seem that the concept of rehabilitation has been abandoned  -  nomad  2012-06-19 13:53:29 (51 views)
• Absolutely. When you look at the political rhetoric of the 1980s  -  thizness  2012-06-19 14:07:06 (52 views)
• Agree. And that's some horrible stuff in that article. Don't read with lunch.   -  nomad  2012-06-19 12:58:50 (38 views)
• Which makes me seem callous... but I will add:  -  nomad  2012-06-19 13:07:18 (53 views)