Mass incarceration is driven less by profit than collective pride in our stern morality: prisons are our cathedralshttps://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/829210280878100480 …
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Replying to @ChaseMadar
Has more to do with nostalgia for plantations than fondness for cathedrals IMO. Not just profit, but “bringing them to heel.”
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Replying to @rohrbach @ChaseMadar
Cathedrals are about awe (like stadiums) - prisons more about fear and coercing labor/political acquiescence among poor ppl.
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Replying to @rohrbach
that's certainly part of it yet NY has plenty of poor ppl and a much lower incarceration rate than AL
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