Feminism and the Prison Industrial Complex
“I was recently looking over US prison statistics,” writes a blogger at The Spearhead. The author shows convincingly that the United States imprisons more people by far in terms of both percent of population and overall number than any other country in the world. In fact, the United States may have the highest peacetime incarceration rate in recorded history — we are certainly somewhere near the USSR at the height of the GULAG system (not counting post-war POWs).
While looking at graphs detailing the steep rise in incarceration that began around 1980, it occurred to me that the implementation of feminism and women’s liberation coincided almost perfectly with the rise in the incarceration rate. As single motherhood and “innovations” in family law spread, the number of men in prison grew at a fantastic rate. In the 1990s, Clinton’s 1994 crime bill further increased the growth of the prison industrial complex just as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) took hold.
It often takes great effort and force to prop up an unnatural social system. The reason the implementation of Communism was accompanied by mass incarceration was that the Communist system wasn’t the best fit for the societies it enslaved. Likewise, although sexual liberation and the destruction of families may come naturally to many – possibly most – women on an individual basis, it doesn’t really work in modern human societies, and probably hasn’t been adaptive since the end of the middle paleolithic.
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