Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years

Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by akomtu on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:02PM (#28079773)

We can trace the history of police all the way back to vikings, neanderthals or even to single celled organisms, but all that would be of little use to deal with the today's prison system.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by smhost on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:18PM (#28079989)

I'm not naturalizing organized violence, you are. I'm talking about the history of one institution and its forms of reproduction. How are you going to "deal" with today's prison system without understanding how it reproduces itself (through the law, through the indoctrination of people such as yourself, etc)?

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by akomtu on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:06PM (#28082101)

History of institution has no bearing on actions of individuals in this institution today. What has bearing is policies that exist today. Not history of those policies, but their actual current state.

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