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[feotakahari]

The real question for prison abolitionists isn’t “what do we do with rapists?” It’s “what do we do with pyromaniacs?” They went into abusive mental institutions, so we shut those down. Now they go into abusive prisons instead. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a society that can make every pyromaniac not want to set fires, so one way or another, there will be strong social pressure to remove them from the community. I also don’t believe that removal can be stopped, so it needs to be managed in a way that learns from the mistakes of the past and avoids creating yet another abusive institution.