We should all be paying attention to people who are organizing in prisons. In addition to them being human beings whose rights we ought to defend, they are the best example in this country of what it means to organize under fascistic conditions. We have a lot to learn from them.
And we have a lot to learn from how prison organizers manage to put animus aside to take on the oppressive system that's torturing and killing them.
Prison conditions in the U.S. are so bad that every year spent in prison knocks two years off your life expectancy. I don't think most people understand that. Prisons steal a lot of time. The prison industrial complex has lowed the overall U.S. life expectancy by five years.
Think about that. Our society created a system of criminalization and bondage so deadly, it has knocked five years off of our overall life expectancy.
That's a disease y'all.
That's a disease y'all.
Anyway, everyone should be paying attention to prison organizing. @MayaSchenwar and I got into what we have to learn from people organizing inside prisons in this piece from 2018.
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