The U.S. Prison system if a revolution happens.

[burntheflag?]

This is my first thread here. So let's discuss. If a widescale leftist revolution for either Communism, or Anarchy were to take place in the United States, what do you think would happen to the immense prison population? Would they be set free? Should they be set free? Should they be forced to stay incarcerated.? Discuss.

[ckaihatsu]

The short answer is that there would be a fairly clear distinction between crimes against property and crimes against one's person.

Revolutionaries would have *zero* interest in any "crimes" against property since such concerns are simply 'intramural' to those of the ownership class and/or wannabes.

Past crimes against people's health and well-being would probably be reviewed as an integral part of the revolution, including *political* decisions / actions that resulted in harm to persons.

[Jimmie Higgins]

If there was a real movement in the u.s. and repression is anything like today, then prisons would probably be one of the main sites of agitation and organization... Both people on the inside and outside.

Prisoner organizations and demands connected with the outside movement would probably determine the process for dismantling the prison system.

As far as people who are severely violent or people who are detained by the revolutionary movement because they are fascists and physical threats, the workers movement would have to come up with new ways of evaluating how to hold and or care for them if needed. We can speculate on various ways that people might do this, but really the main thing I'm sure of is that the vast majority of people in a contemporary-type prison population could and should be released instantly and prison buildings literally demolished.