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As Chris Rock said, "The reason jails are so crowded... is because life is fucked up too!...

Shit, life is catching up to jail! If you live in an old project, a new jail ain't that bad!"

Posted by Gomez | January 22, 2007 9:42 AM
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Ruth Gilmore, author of the Golden Gulag, is coming to town this week at the UW.


Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "The Politics of Abandonment: The Prison Industrial Complex after 25 Years"

Thursday, January 25th, 2007 - 7:00 PM

Communications 120

*A leading anti-prison activist, Ruth Gilmore (Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California ) is a member of the Prison Moratorium Project, California Prison Focus, and co-founder of the national, grassroots organization Critical Resistance, that over the past decade has sought to build "an international movement to end the 'prison industrial complex' by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe."

Gilmore is the author of the new, path-breaking book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2006). Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation of California's leadership in the unprecedented prison-boom of the last quarter century. At once a diagnosis of increasing U.S. societal dependence upon a vast, costly, racially disparate, and punitive prison complex, Golden Gulag also highlights how community-based activism has been successful in bridging urban-rural and race-class divides in an effort to challenge the state's commitment to prison expansion.

Posted by trevor | January 22, 2007 9:55 AM
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Three things to consider:

1. Medical care is not very good in the US if you're not rich.

2. Medical care is automatic in prison.

3. Most African-Americans in the US have been jailed and spent a substantial part of their early adult life in jail.

4. BONUS: The enemies you make in jail, you cap when you get out. And the friends you make in jail, they cap you over some slight when you get out.

Posted by Will in Seattle | January 22, 2007 10:11 AM
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I hate these corollary stats. It’s junk science. For starters, inmates are less likely to die from auto accidents, heart disease related to smoking (yes, I know – but it’s not as easy to get smokes behind bars anymore), alcohol related deaths (ditto above), other accidents, gunfire, drowning, acts of God, etc.

Posted by Chip Chipmunk | January 22, 2007 10:46 AM
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Pets live longer than their feral equivalents, too. A restrictive environment, almost by definition, reduces risk and thus extends your life.

Face it, people don't go to prison for the longevity benefits.

Posted by BC | January 22, 2007 11:44 AM
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Obviously we are spending way too much on healthcare for the incarcerated!

If you torture the numbers long enough they will confess to anything.

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | January 22, 2007 11:45 AM
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Hey Chuck,

Is DJ DV One enjoying the life extending benefits of a prison sentence for assaulting a police officer back in September? When that story broke I thought you were prepared to make it a cause celebrity, but I have not seen any updates to it for some time. I’m assuming that the story line did not play out the way you had planned and did not prove to be as fertile ground for moral (and race) outrage as you had hoped. An update would be interesting though.

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me | January 22, 2007 11:54 AM
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Does anyone have a link to this article? Maybe it is staring me in the face but I could not find anything about this online.
Thanks.

Posted by Jude Fawley | January 22, 2007 3:37 PM
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By the way, Chip, none of your objections show this to be junk science - in fact they take the stats as true and offer explanations. Are you saying that mortality in prisons is really higher than this quote says, or that they are misrepresenting the data? Without the study it is hard to tell what their actual conclusions are.

Posted by Jude Fawley | January 22, 2007 3:40 PM
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Well, I guess I am stretching the term “junk science” – it’s just that I grow weary out of these studies that come out nearly every other day that imply a causal relationship or that identify a disparity. I suppose that much of it is true, however. I guess I jumped to these sentiments perhaps a little too quickly because there was no link to the data.

Posted by Chip Chipmunk | January 22, 2007 3:48 PM
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