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That would be great. Maybe we should try that instead of the police and prisons as they stand now.
But then you're calling for reforms rather than abolishing the current system which is what the post says
It’s the same thing.
There’s no true difference between making a new “rehabilitation facility” of whatever name and changing “prison” to be “prison v2: less shitty and counterproductive“. The only difference is the sign on the door.
the trick is that you have to abolish the originals including all the people who are part of the shitty system, and that can be easier to do if you make a whole new institution with a new name and all.
I’m a big believer in “institutional DNA” where the way things start carries down much longer and stronger than one might expect. This explains things like the way US policing (originating from slavecatchers) differs so much from British policing and the Peelian principles. Both can be awful but it happens in very different ways.
how do you differentiate between a reform and an abolishment?
Reform
Abolish
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/reform
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/abolish