He was told he held “too much influence” in the prison.
June 8, 2022 6:45 PM Subscribe
Samantha Melamed writes about the invention of solitary confinement in US prisons for the Phildelphia Inquirer.
Glad to see a reference to Jen Manion’s Liberty’s Prisoners, which dives into not just the history of incarceration, but also of prison reformers.
Prisons are certainly immoral and grotesque, but so are the ways white reformers have used that immorality as leverage for their own power and aggrandizement. Coming from a Philadelphia Quaker family and being embroiled in the non-profit-industrial complex myself, I found Manion’s narrative especially illuminating.
posted by Headfullofair at 7:55 AM on June 9, 2022 [3 favorites]
Prisons are certainly immoral and grotesque, but so are the ways white reformers have used that immorality as leverage for their own power and aggrandizement. Coming from a Philadelphia Quaker family and being embroiled in the non-profit-industrial complex myself, I found Manion’s narrative especially illuminating.
posted by Headfullofair at 7:55 AM on June 9, 2022 [3 favorites]
Thanks for posting this, it's very worth reading. And horrifying.
posted by sepviva at 10:48 AM on June 9, 2022
posted by sepviva at 10:48 AM on June 9, 2022
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