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So the Atlantic/Hellen Lewis consider it a negative that non-violent and mentally healthy people aren't housed together with violent and mentally ill ones ? Isn
by seemslegit 7y ago
So the Atlantic/Hellen Lewis consider it a negative that non-violent and mentally healthy people aren't housed together with violent and mentally ill ones ? Isn't this basically what the US prison reform advocates want to see their system make its way up to ?
- skrebbel 7y agoNo, the article didn't say that at all.
- seemslegit 7y agoIt kinda does, the "lower class" here is violent and mentally unstable, the "white-collar club" is non-violent and functional in the prison environment, in spite of their best attempts to try and to throw in a racial aspect no evidence is brought that it plays a role, no hints or accusations that money is used to bribe guards or prison authorities. Anyone with basic penology background will consider it a textbook success on progressive grounds - the default in most places is that the prison "upper class" are the violent career criminals who keep the population in check for the prison guards as the white-collar prisoners pay them protection money.