Honestly, temporary council homeless accommodation is the closest thing to prison, especially hearing a little bit of what ex-convicts went through. So much time on your hands, not much to do, little freedom, food given, supervised movements, surveilled movements and static moments. If it wasn’t for my mission, it’d be the most boring and atrocious thing to experience, and this leads me to my point.

What are we doing to prisoners?! They’re humans who need education, not to be stripped of their humanity, as that easily breeds more of the inhumane behaviours we locked them up or allowed to exist and be a way of reform. Rehabilitation is the answer, not imprisonment. It’s atrocious when you think of people spending years on years in it. What it does to their minds is atrocious, inhumane and ignorant.

If someone does something wrong to the concept of society, they require to be understood, not isolated. Isolation festers things, it doesn’t solve the problem. If anything, it just takes time away from one’s life, time that could have been built to build a stronger mind and connection with society. I personally will need a rehabilitation in 4Honeth style after this experience, because the trenches experience I’m having is only distancing myself from humanity.

I understand the anger for being the victim, but we can’t say everyone deserves dignity and legal protection and then remove both upon verdict. Everyone deserves compassion, because everyone is simply acting differently in response to the system we live in.

I feel wrong for ever wishing anyone to be imprisoned. I feel wrong to even have allowed the concept of it.

It is inhuman for humanity to use prison as a way to justify their hurt. They’re angry at the person that was raised by a specific system, the anger is partially misplaced. Sure, we can say, well, not everyone grows to be a criminal, but if we were to look at what makes one a criminal, it isn’t about morals or ethics, because people are pretty okay walking over dead bodies as long as they’re not in front of them, or look away from hurt or neglect the homeless, disregard calls for help, hinder people’s ability to seek freedom, judge those who live freely differently, invest in a system that allows it all and more worse to happen…

If we were to look at morals and ethics, not many of us actually do have them. We like to judge but not account for our own self. We like to say the other is the criminal just because their criminality might be clear and obvious, but what about those who make criminality look good, polished, or that which doesn’t even know they’re being a criminal?!

Who’s worse in all of this, really?! That which has knowledge and resources and does nothing, or that which doesn’t have resources and knowledge that looks for “sleezy” ways to survive?!

We are no better just because we are free. If anything, we manipulate the law and the system into looking good by it, so that we don’t get the judgement of being criminals ourselves, but that doesn’t take away from the fact, we all are and we all would be in specific circumstances.

It’s like, what are you willing to do with a gun pointed at your head?! We have a lot to say on murderers, but what if the only way to save yourself and your family is to kill, what do you do then?! Murder and all criminalities are circumstantial, that’s what the experiment of electric shock proves, and to this day it is the modern slavery where the slave has mastered the master’s ways so much they participate without questioning.

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