For the most part, prisons modern classification systems reflects a threat level assessment based on testosterone levels. This in turn places younger man-childs at higher security prisons. It's grounded in the popularized super predators ideas of the 90s #BurnThePrisons
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You have droves of men that were young when they came inside now exiting prisons with no marketable job skills. Simply because their time has been spent in a "cycle" at a higher security prison where there is 'zero next to none' services that prepare a person for release
Prisons are weapons against disadvantaged communities. It's not just about the crime. Shit runs way deeper for some of us. Here where im at in my study circle we see a counter insurgency program that never ended
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similar to where im at. a weapon against a community's ability to reproduce itself on its own terms, deal with its own conflicts. It is incompatible with self determination, community and justice.
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