Thread by @haveachattabs

While jail cells overflow and people are killed in custody -this government (and others) is patting itself on the back for running a violent system.

National Corrections Day is not a neutral celebration. It is carceral copaganda, pure and simple.
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To frame Corrections staff as “changing lives” while communities are being torn apart by incarceration is tone deaf at best, and vile at worst. Prisons don’t reduce harm - they create it.
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The so-called “success” of a 10% reduction in “reoffending” means nothing when the baseline is a system designed to criminalise poverty, race, disability and trauma.
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Corrections is a violent protession. From solitary continement to routine strip-searching to the daily denial of dignity, prisons are inherently sites of systemic abuse. Calling this “incredible work” erases the lived reality of those on the receiving end of this violence.

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We don’t need more innovation in corrections. We need abolition of the entire death making industry.

The only way to reduce criminalisation in any meaningful, lasting way is to invest in housing, health, education, and community - not cages.
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So no - fcuk off with the celebrations. We’re demanding an end to the violence, the killings, the disappearing of our people. There is nothing to be proud of in a system built on punishment, violence and control.
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This “National Corrections Day” support Sisters Inside & @NNetworkAu so we can #FreeHer