Incarceration doesn't make for safer communities - this carceral "common sense" needs critical examination so we can understand what prisons are really for, & the impact they really have, in the colony

Thanks @emmakrussell.bsky.social @francismarkham.work @blatmannaama.bsky.social Andrew Burridge!
Reposted from The Conversation AUNZ
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.

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