Not the onion somehow.
‘Pet ferrets kept as therapy animals at the UK’s largest children’s prison have been co-opted by managers to kill rats, resulting in a bloody incident and concerns over child and animal welfare.’
'According to a union complaint seen by the Guardian, the decision resulted in a boy who looks after ferrets witnessing an “inappropriate and potentially distressing” savaging of a screaming rat.
Another complaint suggests the gored rodent was then “stomped to death” by a senior staff member in front of prison officers.
The incident once again highlights the vermin-ridden conditions in which children and adults are detained within the prison estate across England and Wales.’
Do you think it’s really comparable to slavery and apartheid?
Prisons have been around for longer than both of those things. I get that rehabilitation should be the goal but what are you meant to do when someone is repeatedly incapable of living within society?
When people are talking about incarceration, they’re usually talking about the modern form of incarceration which is specifically not rooted in any historical form that may have sought to make a community safer by rehabilitating or relocating anti-social individuals.
The current system makes no attempt to fix any of the issues that cause anti-social behaviors, it makes no attempt to remediate anti-social behaviors, and it is not applied at a human scale.
What? No. What gave you this idea? Slavery is way, way older than prisons. Also older than states.
If you want to seperate a person from society you can at least put them in a big cage like an open air locked off town instead of a little cell.
The current incarceration system was invented because