AOC says prisons evolved from Jim Crow, apartheid and slavery. Leftist college students echo her

Last month Democratic strategist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned imprisonment, instead pushing "decarceration:"

“Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery. To end it, we have to change. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country.” --Ocasio-Cortez 

And right on cue--as if by magic--a group of students at ultra-liberal Brown University took up the call to abolish all prisons “in the name of justice” because they are “racist” and “punishment at any stage doesn’t guarantee any kind of growth.”

“The end goal is to not have...any form of incarceration,” said one student.  The students didn't respond when asked if they'd be willing to have rapists, murderers, thieves and child molesters live on their own streets instead of in prisons.

Student Aida Sherif insisted the prison system is about punishment instead of justice.  “Prisons were founded in the ideas of punishing the poor, punishing people of color,” Sherif said. “I don’t see it as an institution that can ever fully break away from those foundations.”

The student insisted prisons aren't needed.  “Our society is constructed [to make] us believe prisons are absolutely necessary,” Sherif said. “People perceive [abolition] as crazy, unreasonable, dangerous, too radical.  Abolition is not anarchy.”

The student group wants the college to hire former prison inmates.

Couple of observations:  First, I think we can expect to see this idea echoed by students at other leftist universities, cuz it sounds SOoo virtuous.  And second:  I think reporters and audience members will begin asking Democrat.presidential candidates whether they support this idea.  It'll give the candidates a chance to demonstrate more leftist credentials.

https://www.eutimes.net/2019/11/brown-university-students-want-to-abolish-all-prisons-because-they-are-racist/