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| ===== The Prisons Explode ===== | ===== The Prisons Explode ===== | ||
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| There were already more than four million men and women in US Federal, State and Municipal prisons, with numbers growing every day. Although new, mostly private jails were constantly being constructed, they rapidly overflowed with inmates thanks to the War on Drugs, the Patriot Laws, three strikes legislation and the despair of the young and the inner cities. In that vast prison population languished millions of young people, Blacks, Latinos, poor women, for the most part more victims than criminals. Since the 1960’s all kinds of revolutionary literature had been circulating samizdat among the inmates. More recently, Fish graffiti had appeared on the walls. | There were already more than four million men and women in US Federal, State and Municipal prisons, with numbers growing every day. Although new, mostly private jails were constantly being constructed, they rapidly overflowed with inmates thanks to the War on Drugs, the Patriot Laws, three strikes legislation and the despair of the young and the inner cities. In that vast prison population languished millions of young people, Blacks, Latinos, poor women, for the most part more victims than criminals. Since the 1960’s all kinds of revolutionary literature had been circulating samizdat among the inmates. More recently, Fish graffiti had appeared on the walls. | ||
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| Very little crime was reported at that time. In the midst of momentous organised struggles, a curious calm and order reigned. Everyone went about their business, which was often everyone’s business: supplying free milk for the children, setting up soup kitchens for the strikers’ families, keeping the ambulances, hospitals, transport and emergency services running, organising for self-defense. A serious sense of purpose was in the air, which did not exclude a good deal of exuberance among people experiencing freedom and responsibility for the first time. The impending crisis provoked more good humor than depression, although the jokes were mostly ironic. People thought less about their own petty resentments. It felt good to be alive and wonderful to be young. | Very little crime was reported at that time. In the midst of momentous organised struggles, a curious calm and order reigned. Everyone went about their business, which was often everyone’s business: supplying free milk for the children, setting up soup kitchens for the strikers’ families, keeping the ambulances, hospitals, transport and emergency services running, organising for self-defense. A serious sense of purpose was in the air, which did not exclude a good deal of exuberance among people experiencing freedom and responsibility for the first time. The impending crisis provoked more good humor than depression, although the jokes were mostly ironic. People thought less about their own petty resentments. It felt good to be alive and wonderful to be young. | ||
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