[lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1736, Issue 3

[Carrol Cox]

I don't know how representative the Prison Guards at Pontiac are, but I
suspect that for the most part it's hard to find a group more reactionary
and racist than prison guards. Prisons are to some extent structured to
force the guards into situations in which, if a guard is "liberal" to begin
with, he/she rapidly becomes Exhibit A of the Mugged Liberal Syndrome.
Another instance of the way in which structural racism generates personal
racism, NOT the other way around.

Carrol

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Joanna wrote:


>I'm not sure if prisons don't help local economies. I used to live in a
prison town (Plattsburgh). Most of the guards there used to have
manufacturing jobs, so if they could not have gotten prison jobs, they would
have starved.

But overall everyone loses:

http://realcostofprisons.org/

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