Quotes About Decarceration

States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or an understanding of the intertwined histories of capitalism, white supremacy, & punishment in the US, but rather bc coffers are empty, and prisons & punishment consume ever-growing portions of shrinking revenues.

Limiting institutionalization is an important decarceration strategy, but it still legitimates confinement as just one among other seemingly equal options and as such rationalizes carcerality and neutralizes its logic.