[lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...)

[Joanna]

"I was at an event many years ago at which an audience member tried to 
assert to Christian Parenti - who, remember, wrote a great book on the 
prison system, Lockdown America - that most of the people behind bars 
were innocent. He dismissed her with scorn. "

I never said people in prison were innocent. I just said that what 
landed them in prison was not their crimes but their ethnicity and lack 
of money.

Joanna