You’re a prison abolitionist. You’re in a high stakes discussion where you have to answer seriously and be convincing.

Someone asks you : “yeah, but what are we to do with people breaking the law, then? What will you replace prisons with ?”

What will you answer?

Edit : Thanks a lot for your answer, they were very interesting and reflecting different ways to frame a world without prisons.

Except from one or two edgelord hot takes, of course.

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    12 days ago

    Isn’t the root cause often (generational) trauma. There’s no, within lifetime, solution.

    • While trauma can be a life sentence in a way, that doesn’t mean it isn’t treatable. I’ll always have a brain formed/rewired by trauma but, through therapy, it no longer impairs my life enough to qualify as a “disorder”

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        2 days ago

        I have diagnosed C-PTSD. But I understand it’s too late now to treat my father or grandfather.

        Going prisonless seems, to me, rediculous?