Jessica+and+Madi

Plan: The United States federal government should abolish its domestic prisons Advantages: Antiblackness

====The united states surveillance system has tied itself to the prison industrial complex – the monitoring and tracking of vulnerable populations are used to target bodies who we deem criminals in the eyes of the law – this process is a violent form of racialization which recreates the problems it tries to solve==== Herzing 2005 (Rachel, activist from the US with almost 20 years of organising experience, came to the forum and gave a talk about the work and politics of two US prison abolitionist organisations "Defending Justice - What Is The Prison Industrial Complex?" N.p., 2005. Web. 17 July 2015. [], LB)

====This is especially true for the war on drugs –there is some truth to this statement – there is certainly a war going on but it is not against some inanimate object called drugs – modern day civil society has constructed a war on communities of color – non white populations are arbitrarily discriminated against and forced behind bars==== Gupta 2011 (vanita, Director – ACLU Center for Justice, [|The 40-Year War on Drugs: It's Not Fair, and It's Not Working], [], LB)

The prison industrial complex is modern fascism – it promotes a culture of genocide which makes the extermination of populations a necessity
Dillon 2013 (Stephen, phd in philosophy, fugitive life: race, gender and the rise of the neoliberal-carceral state, [], LB)

Prisons can never be used for good – any reason to keep prisons first stemmed from problems caused by cages in the first place
McLeod 15 -- Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Allegra, “Prison Abolition and Grounded Justice,” UCLA Law Review, Number 1156, [], tony)

====Additionally, hyper incarceration has divided communities of color and locking them into poverty – the only means of survival has become a unique site of dehumanization. Additionally, this limits black access to the political which makes the aff a prerequisite to effective reforms==== Cooper 13 -- Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School (Frank Rudy, “We Are Always Already Imprisoned: Hyper-Incarceration and Black Male Identity Performance,” Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Research Paper 13-20, Suffolk University, July 1, 2013, tony)

The prison industrial complex should come first – the imperial nature of the PIC functions as an impact magnifier for any eruption of violence
David 8 (gilbert, “A SYSTEM WITH IN THE SYSTEM: THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COM PLEX AND IMPERIALISM,” Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex, ed. CR-10 Publications Collective, 2008, LB)

Our strategy is not reformism, nor is it a call for fixing a broken system but a total destruction of prison society
Herzing 2005 (Rachel, activist from the US with almost 20 years of organising experience, came to the forum and gave a talk about the work and politics of two US prison abolitionist organisations "Defending Justice - What Is The Prison Industrial Complex?" N.p., 2005. Web. 17 July 2015. [], LB)

====Refuse any ideology that demands the continuation of the prison system – white supremacy creates laws to capture any form of alterity that exists in our perfect world, working on helping people at an individual level is more beneficial for those encaged now==== Davis 2003 (Angela Y professor of history of consciousness at the University of California, //Are Prisons Obsolete?// New York: Seven Stories, 2003, [], LB)