Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners

 

The American Gulag is the largest prison system in the world (leaving out those it has kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured abroad).  US capitalism executes children and the mentally impaired. For this reason, many countries do not have extradition agreements with the US.  Its racist and barbaric justice system has ensured that more than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. "For Black males in their twenties, 1 in every 8 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the "war on drugs," in which three-fourths of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color." (The sentencing Project)

I was reading how the guy that shot Senator Gifford from Arizona is still being sedated and I know what's happening; they are doing what they can to have him certified fit to stand trial so that they might be able to execute him.  Make him well enough to kill. But he was not well when he did what he did.

The prisons are full of people that would be productive human beings if given a chance. I am not talking about those that are a danger to society for whatever reason, mental illness or what, but the vast majority that capitalism cannot utilize, has no place for.  There is no doubt that some of us for whatever reason become anti-social and violent, much of this has its origins in social conditions. We do have to protect society from some people regardless of the cause of their illness.  But prisons are not correctional centers by any means.  The prison industrial complex is but a system of warehousing human beings, those that the market has abandoned and who at some point may become a threat to it in the political sense.

Try and come out to San Quentin on February 20th.