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For this, the Stasi owned 17 remand prisons, one in every district.
I believe, and my experience tells me, that when we change the way we think, we create new possibilities, or futures, and prisons need a different future.
Now this was the early '80s, and prisons weren't quite what you see on TV or in the movies.
My next assignment was to one of the state's deep-end prisons where some of our more violent or disruptive inmates are housed.
I was patient with them, explaining our brute force approach to making prisons safer.
We talked and discovered how prisons and inmates could actually help advance science by helping them complete projects they couldn't complete on their own, like repopulating endangered species: frogs, butterflies, endangered prairie plants.
Our prisons are getting safer for both staff and inmates, and when our prisons are safe, we can put our energies into a lot more than just controlling.
If we rely on just prisons to reduce crime, I'm afraid we'll never get there.
But prisons can do some things we never thought they could do.
Prisons can be the source of innovation and sustainability, repopulating endangered species and environmental restoration.
Prisons can be the source of meaningful work and opportunity for staff and the inmates who live there.
Prisons need to be secure, yes, safe, yes.
Prisons need to provide humane environments where people can participate, contribute, and learn meaningful lives.
And when we do that thoughtfully and with humanity, prisons can be more than the bucket for failed social policy.
I think we can get home on this thing and I think we can build these all over the country for less money than we're spending on prisons.
This realization was exploited most powerfully for pragmatic ends by the 18th- century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time, institutions had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised was an architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called the panopticon, the primary attribute of which was the construction of an enormous tower in the center of the institution where whoever controlled the institution could at any moment watch any of the inmates, although they couldn't watch all of them at all times.
The 20th-century French philosopher Michel Foucault realized that that model could be used not just for prisons but for every institution that seeks to control human behavior: schools, hospitals, factories, workplaces.
After all, there are huge military police prisons and financial establishments benefiting from this war.
Look at the murder and mayhem in Mexico, Central America, so many other parts of the planet, the global black market estimated at 300 billion dollars a year, prisons packed in the United States and elsewhere, police and military drawn into an unwinnable war that violates basic rights, and ordinary citizens just hope they don't get caught in the crossfire, and meanwhile, more people using more drugs than ever.
It counts bombs and prisons as progress.
We need to change the culture in our jails and prisons, especially for young inmates.
He entered the world through the three gateways that doom so many young American men: bad parents, bad schools, bad prisons.
Or imagine mothers on opposite sides of a conflict somewhere in the world sitting down not to talk about that conflict but to find out who they are as people, and in doing so, begin to build bonds of trust; or that someday it becomes a tradition all over the world that people are honored with a StoryCorps interview on their 75th birthday; or that people in your community go into retirement homes or hospitals or homeless shelters or even prisons armed with this app to honor the people least heard in our society and ask them who they are, what they've learned in life, and how they want to be remembered.
New York, New Jersey and California have been dropping their prison populations, closing prisons, while also seeing a big drop in crime.
Texas has gotten into the game now, also closing prisons, investing in education.
Prisons are a system of cooperation; slaughterhouses are a system of cooperation; concentration camps are a system of cooperation.
Chimpanzees don't have slaughterhouses and prisons and concentration camps.
But unlike Gitmo they exist right here, at home, floating within larger federal prisons.
I'm here because as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said, "When the prisons and gates slam shut, prisoners do not lose their human quality."
CMUs aren't solitary confinement, but they radically restrict all of these to levels that meet or exceed the most extreme prisons in the United States.
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