>And what does she plan to do with actual
>murderers, rapists, and armed robbers? I don't know. Maybe someone else does.
She's answered that with this quote:
>Still--abolition? Where do you put the
>prisoners? The "criminals?" What's the alternative?
>
>First, having no alternative at allwould create
>less crime than the present criminal training centers do.
>
>Arthur Waskow, resident fellow, Institute for
>Policy Studies, Saturday Review, January 8, 1972
>But the social democratic part does, or should,
>have a lot to offer that middle 75%. So why
>label this agenda "prison abolition" and not "social justice"?
Partly because the label didn't start with her. Many more similar observations are here:
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/chapter1.shtml