The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
