The Prison Is Not The Only Institution

Had It Not Been For Slavery, The Death Penalty Would Have Likely Been Abolished In America. Slavery Became A Haven For The Death Penalty.

I Think That Has To Do With My Awareness That In A Sense We All Have A Certain Measure Of Responsibility To Those Who Have Made It Possible For Us To Take Advantage Of The Opportunities.

Yes, I Think It's Really Important To Acknowledge That Dr. King, Precisely At The Moment Of His Assassination, Was Re-conceptualizing The Civil Rights Movement And Moving Toward A Sort Of Coalitional Relationship With The Trade Union Movement.

Imprisonment Has Become The Response Of First Resort To Far Too Many Of Our Social Problems.

We Don’t Go Further Than What Marx Called The Exchange Value Of The Actual Object - We Don’t Think About The Relations That That Object Embodies - And Were Important To The Production Of That Object Whether It’s Our Food Or Our Clothes Or Our I-pads Or All The Materials We Use To Acquire An Education At An Institution Like This. That Would Really Be Revolutionary To Develop A Habit Of Imagining The Human Relations And Non Human Relations Behind All Of The Objects That Constitute Our Environment.