The Left Is WRONG About Prisons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Z9_sem5aI

@matrix 5 minutes in and he admits that the prison system is not about rehabilitation because it "simply doesn't work" even tho across the ocean it works absolute wonders in lowering the crime rates. this individual is very much aware of the prison system being a legal and easy way of enslaving people to do labour which creates capital for whoever is manufacturing prison goods. the prison system works, for capitalists.

@tsumi because it never was and he addresses your point about other countries at the end.

@matrix I don't need to continue watching he's already wrong about what prisons should do and about the effectiveness of acting as a deterrent objectively. not even a discussion at this point.

@tsumi
I do not know where this idea comes from but the primary purpose of prison has always been incapacitation, then a deterrent and the small amount of rehabilitation that might happen was just a bonus.

@matrix @tsumi Prisons are bad because capital punishment for serious offenders and corporal punishment for minor offenders are more cost-effective. At least that's how the only remotely persuasive prison abolition argument I've heard goes.