The plan is to empty the prison of the great majority of prisoners and throw them back into the prison-system using the technology of isolation and control; and for the minority of irreducibile rebels, keep them inside for ever. What is being presented as ‘progress’ is nothing other than the advance and spread of repression. This is what the abolitionists are really subscribing to:’change everything so that everything remains the same’.

It has been said, not mistakenly, that those who do most harm in this world are those who try to do most good. Still today, with increasing isolation and atomisation od individuals, there are people around who decide to ruin their lives with excessive altruism. Always with the best of intentions, they set out to try to remedy the ills they see before them. They can even be paid by the State for doing so, and this is one of the great swindles of capital: it imposes conditions of untold suffering and, through its ally the State, paves the way for it to be prolonged in time, rationalised and reformed.

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