We have knee-deep in the FAFO stage of mass incarceration: incarcerating a young person costs up to $70,000 annually. To keep an older person sick and weak in prison, we pay between $100,000 and $240,000. How many clean needles and bottles of Narcan can we buy with that kind of money?
‘We Are Such a Punitive Country’: America’s ‘Death by Incarceration’ MachineAmerica’s prison population is aging into disability and disease. Understaffed clinics and delayed treatments turn serving life into a death sentence: as the system breaks down, the logic behind decad...www.thexylom.comMichael HobbesIt was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration