
The Alabama prison uprising w/ Jared Ware
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Anarchism and Prisons
The 80s drug war was a recruitment drive for prisons. It wasn't it wasn't like and that's that's what I mean about like we think of these things wrong Is that we thinking them kind of backwards is that we think of it as oh They did a drug war and these are the casualties But no they did a recruitment drive and the drugs were the excuse Like it was the pretext Right, it was the excuse they needed so like the fact that like, you know crack had all those like extra Extra like enhancedwhatever whatever they're called In like hand sentencing The sentencing disparity was like 500 to one or something Because that's white supremacy working its way but also speeding up the production of
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