it doesn't matter whether or not prisons "work" (and oh let's be careful never to define work as anything other than "criminals are stopped from committing more crimes")

It matters that today, our prisons, in our societies, are designed as part of a mega-machine of apparatuses with the goal of killing every way of life so life itself has no form. And in its formless, primeval muck, Labor becomes malleable, directable. It pumps us through its circuitry, to give it life.

We deserve to determine for ourselves the form of our lives.