Maya Schenwar: Prison Does Not Keep Us Safe

As massive numbers of homeless, hungry, unemployed, drug-addicted, illiterate, and mentally ill people vanish behind its walls, the social problems of extreme poverty, homelessness, hunger, unemployment, drug addiction, illiteracy, and mental illness become more ignorable, too...

Isolation does not “rehabilitate” people. Disappearance does not deter harm. And prison does not keep us safe.
 

― Maya Schenwar, Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better