[lbo-talk] Prisons and The Left

[Carrol Cox]

Just a note; my focus is _wholly_ on the creation of a serious left in
the u.s. The main reason, perhaps, for abolishing the prison system
relates not to the prisoners but to the corrupting influence the prison
system has on the social order as a whole. No one should really want
living among us, for example, the kind  of people created by employment
as prison or jail staff. And no one should want the kind of population
which supprots the present prison system. The punishment obsession shag
describes is a ,akpr barroer tp solidarity == the woman I spoke to about
migrants just spit out, then repeated, ELLEGAL, ILLEGAL, immigrants.

Carrol