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“... all over the world the institution of the prison serves as a place to warehouse people who represent major social problems... prison serves as an institution that consolidates the state's inability and refusal to address the most pressing social problems of this era.”

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Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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“The very existence of the prison forecloses the kinds of discussions that we need in order to imagine the possibility of eradicating these behaviors. Just send them to prison. Just keep on sending them to prison. Then of course, in prison they find themselves within a violent institution that reproduces violence.”

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Book:Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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