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Do jails kill people? No. Jail is a tool. People kill people.
by unnouinceput 8y ago
Do jails kill people? No. Jail is a tool. People kill people.
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- vertex-four 8y agoJails are a system in which people operate, and how that system is designed lacks accountability and encourages guards to kill people. The people within that system have responsibility for how they behave, yes, but as long as the system continues to exist the behaviour will as well.
- nkrisc 8y agoPeople don't kill people. Loss of oxygenation of the brain kills people.
- gerbilly 8y agoJails do harm and even kill people. Jails and prisons inflict violence daily on the inmates, and even the guards and staff, just from the very nature of the situation they create. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
- techbio 8y agoThey're not really people, they are officers acting in official capacity, ie. agents of a state. They are, as people, often immune from legal consequences for their actions. Would they behave the same way otherwise? https://reason.org/commentary/privatization-qualified-immunity/ https://reason.org/commentary/privatization-qualified-immuni...