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It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures.
Over a few days, the Tunisian regime that invested billions of dollars in the security agencies, billions of dollars in maintaining, trying to maintain, its prisons, collapsed, disappeared, because of the voices of the public.
Shortly after I performed the first liver transplant, I received my next assignment, and that was to go to the prisons to harvest organs from executed prisoners.
But I don't design prisons.
All the same, I get a call every week, saying, "OK, but you design better prisons, right?
And I invite them, and I invite you today, to imagine a world without prisons.
Instead of building prisons, we should be building spaces to amplify restorative justice.
So I thought, uh, maybe I should ask them what we should build instead of prisons.
So instead of building prisons, what we could build are spaces for job training and entrepreneurship.
So you've seen two things we can build instead of prisons.
Instead of building prisons, we could build villages on wheels.
So what do we build instead of prisons?
So with this in mind, I ask you one more time to imagine a world without prisons, and join me in creating all the things that we could build instead.
We all want the wheels of justice to properly turn, but we're coming to understand that the lofty ideals we learned in school look really different in our nation's prisons and jails and courtrooms.
I spend most of my time in jails, in prisons, on death row.
In 1972, there were 300,000 people in jails and prisons.
We can retool prisons so that HIV prevention and harm reduction is available to prisoners.
American prisons and jails are filled with people who suffer from severe mental illness, and many of them are there because they never received adequate treatment.
The best thing we can do is figure out ways to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons, because if we don't, they're not going to learn any new skills that's going to help them, and they'll be right back.
And at times they have worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to oppose the building of new prisons and to work for reforms that will make the justice system more efficient and more humane.
So we refounded the mobile unit and took Shakespeare to prisons, to homeless shelters, to community centers in all five boroughs and even in New Jersey and Westchester County.
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
I have been undercover in the prisons.
It gives us an opportunity to consider the possibility of replacing some of these prisons with playgrounds or parks, and to consider the possibility of converting our neighborhoods into neighborhoods, and to allow there to be a new strategy, a new set of methods, a new set of workers: science, in a way, replacing morality.
I wanted to understand who we were arresting, who we were charging, and who we were putting in our nation's jails and prisons.
Right now, today, we have 2.3 million people in our jails and prisons.
Yet the moment we speak about prisons, it's as though we're back in Dickensian times, if not medieval times.
SP: The imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders and the toleration of rape in our nation's prisons.
MK: We have a lot of connections with prisons, apparently.
It could stop people on the street and arrest them in its own prisons.
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