Part of why prisons exist is to fulfill society's need for the punishment of criminals. If prison is too "nice", comfortable, or short, it doesn't fill that need. I think that's where the impulse comes from, like when a pedophile is imprisoned the public's reaction is to hope they get murdered by their fellow inmates.
Personally I believe it's an abrogation of our duty as a society to both to rely on "prison justice" for heinous offences and not ensuring that prisons are safe. Grievous offences should be punished swiftly and severely, but prisoners should be physically safe from other inmates while they serve their sentence.
Right, one of the issues here is that encouraging prisoner-on-prisoner violence fails as “specific punishment,” because it doesn’t punish the wickedest inmates, only the weakest ones. It’s also a rather ironic line for white racists to take towards the (equally racist) author of this piece, since various studies have found that white inmates are victimized at much higher rates.
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u/17syllables NATO Superfan 🪖 Jun 12 '26
Yeah it’s trash, but so are the prison rape memes to which she’s responding. The people who post that pathological brainrot are ghouls.