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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You're a prison abolitionist. You're in a high stakes discussion where you have to answer seriously and be convincing.

Someone asks you : "yeah, but what are we to do with people breaking the law, then? What will you replace prisons with ?"

What will you answer?

Edit : Thanks a lot for your answer, they were very interesting and reflecting different ways to frame a world without prisons.

Except from one or two edgelord hot takes, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

in starship trooper I believe they replaced all prisons with corporal punishment.