unpopular destination? "society without prisons" - now sounds somehow wrong. How is this for? And that's really one or one? Against the death penalty what to do or because one is innocent, yes, no problem! Others have then there is their own "political prisoners". - But not locking up anymore, no retaliation, no justice?
And already they are all caught in the trap are disciplined in the disciplinary society, between concessions and daily co-monitoring - "He who abides by the laws that happens which nothing" - and not notice that they, too long in the crosshairs are Actually we need nothing more to do: In the near future, the prisons disappear by itself. House arrest with ankle cuffs already decided. Electronic collars are already discussed, practiced private security, smart cards, Internet checks camera surveillance, biometric assignment already, ready for social exclusion of certain social groups, migrants, undocumented refugees. All planned as a well-oiled machine with a "no-go areas". to enter only with a corresponding map.
But the transformation in the society of control is not yet complete. "Zero Tolerance", "longer sentences" - We could almost speak of a "rediscovery of the prison" if it is privatized, more and more for cost reasons. Always new and different threat scenarios are built: ". The as have gone, are deported detained," If we here again and continue to talk of "society without prisons," it means, all the tackle just said to break up, alternatives develop - because less and less by "does not concern me the" can speak out. Thus, for example forcing more people to ensure their daily survival, access to "illegal methods." 80% of the detainees are so-called "property crimes".
"society without prisons" is here and now to change our relations with each other. Conflicts can not be imprisoned. That is a day to seek and find solutions without having to resort to punishment do. Does the long term, a radical change in this society. Many of us (myself included) have perhaps their own revenge fantasies. But I think we all have our respective alternative solutions to conflicts, whether in private or public contexts, to specific methods of self defense.
Since then there are these battles, is really all been said before. I would therefore like to finally say a few sentences of prisoners in struggle from Italy:
We are against prison ...
We are against prison because it was created and designed to protect the privileges of the rich and the power of the state.
We are against prison , because a society no longer needs him, if not on money and Profits, but on freedom and solidarity.
We are against prison because we aspire to a world where the rules are really decide together.
We are against prison because even the most cruel crimes says something about ourselves, about our fears, our weaknesses.
We are against prison because nothing good can grow on subjugation and coercion.
We are against prison because we want to change this society a radical (and therefore violated their laws) because we do not want to peacefully integrate into their cities, their factories, their barracks, their shopping centers.
We are against prison because the noise of the key cells in the castle is a daily torture, isolation, a revulsion, the end of office hours an ordeal, the locked time an hourglass, which kills slowly.
We are against prison , either because they are far too many days has taken months or years, or far too many friends, comrades or strangers.
We are against prison because the people we have met in it, neither better nor worse than those that run around the outside. (Although come to think, they are still better).
We are against prison because the message of an outbreak warms our hearts more than the first day of spring.
We are against prison , because a society, it needs to imprison people and disempowering, even a jail is.
we cancel this society, we replace their laws and their right by our own rules! Therefore: for society without prisons!
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. above text was
Wilfried formulated and presented together,
as speech AntiknastAK-K presented
on New Year's Eve rally in 2009
front of the prison Cologne Ossendorf.
from IMPUNITY NO.2
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