Reform-centered frameworks marginalize decarceration strategies
Evidence
As important as some reforms may be—the elimination of sexual abuse and medical neglect in women’s prison, for example—frameworks that rely exclusively on reforms help to produce the stultifying idea that nothing lies beyond the prison. Debates about strategies of decarceration, which should be the focal point of our conversations on the prison crisis, tend to be marginalized when reform takes the center stage. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 48
Categorization
- XREF: The reform-vs-abolition distinction echoes earlier chapter positions; Davis argues reforms can foreclose abolition. — connects to: Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 266
Related
- Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges (similarity 0.86)
- The penitentiary was framed as a progressive reform of its era. (similarity 0.83)
- Rehabilitation has been displaced by incapacitation as prison’s goal (similarity 0.82)
- Abolition requires a continuum of alternatives, not prisonlike substitutes (similarity 0.81)
- Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.81)
- Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.79)
- Prison reform rhetoric reinforces the prison’s permanence. (similarity 0.79)
- Alternatives failing to address structures of domination cannot achieve abolition (similarity 0.78)
- Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Reform rhetoric bolsters prison permanence and cannot meet corporate-era challenges
#corroborates(0.85) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 266