[lbo-talk] A Note on the Middle 75%

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 18 19:39:45 PST 2011


On Nov 18, 2011, at 8:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> For years until I lost my eyesight I read every page of two publications:
> Prison Legal News and Left Business Observer. Had I eyes I would still be
> reading both.
>
> The prison system has the same corrupting influence on U.S. life that the
> Vietnam War and Jim Crow had. You simply cannot seriously oppose capitalism
> without calling for the elimination of U.S. prisons.

This is what I don't get. Mass imprisonment is one of the horrors of U.S. life. But elimination? Really? In this world, before the afterlife?

Doug



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