{"id":22878,"date":"2019-04-19T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22878"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T01:03:58","slug":"if-i-believe-in-prison-abolition-and-i-do-i-dont-get-to-shift-my-philosophy-when-it-suits-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22878","title":{"rendered":"If I believe in prison abolition, and I do, I don&#8217;t get to shift my philosophy when it suits me"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"500\" class=\"wp-image-24838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/If-I-believe-in-abolition.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/If-I-believe-in-abolition.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/If-I-believe-in-abolition-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I\u2019ve been listening to them talk about 40 years for Lori Loughlin, a person I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever spent 10 seconds thinking about before this. I understand the outrage and frustration. Black parents have been thrown in jail for lying about where they lived so their children could attend a better public school. I understand the vulgarity of privilege and have been hurt by it. Often white women who do not acknowledge that privilege have been the very heart of that harm.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But if I believe in prison abolition, and I do, then I don&#8217;t get the option of shifting my philosophy when it suits me. Either I have a principle, or I don&#8217;t. Either I believe in transformative justice, which centers the idea that no member of society exists in a vacuum or external to that society and addressing a harm must not be grounded in individual revenge but returning all involved, including the broader community, to whole. Prisons and jails are a failed, lazy response to social disruptions. No matter what the crime. All these people doing time and every harm still stalks us: sexual assault, murder, larceny. Whatever.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in working with people who are less about turning up and more about turning in, considering what is needed to have a society where equity and health and compassion and safety and joy are the norm. And yet even from people who say they honor these things, I more hear anger and revenge, emotions I understand well, but ones that I refuse to allow guide any decision I make or position I take.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>(Image Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptycagesdesign.org\/prison-abolition-interconnected-struggles-workshop-design\/\">Empty Cages Design<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been listening to them talk about 40 years for Lori Loughlin, a person I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever spent 10 seconds thinking about before this. I understand the outrage and frustration. Black parents have been thrown in jail for lying about where they lived so their children could attend a better public school. 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