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We Don’t Need Prisons to Make Us Safer
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To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?”
The United States now has 2.3 million people behind bars of some form or another. These are not 2.3 million isolated individuals their imprisonment sends reverberations into their families and communities. On any given day, 2.7 million children have a parent in prison. Incarcerating that parent removes a source of financial and emotional support for both children and adult family members. For families who are already in economically precarious situations, removing a parent can plunge them into poverty, reduce their safety, and make them more vulnerable to arrest and incarceration. ....

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