This fall, Yale University plans to offer a course that draws comparisons between the US prison system and some of the most brutal regimes in history, such as the Soviet gulags, Nazi Germany, and communist China.

Philosophy Professor Stanley - one of two teachers in the course - points out that the USA traditionally imprisons 10% of all prisoners globally, with over 38m of the inmates being black. Stanley opines in a Tweet that few minorities have been the specific targets of incarceration for so many decades and asks "why perpetuate it?".

The course description and tweets on the topic are on the link here:

https://thecollegepost.com/yale-us-prisons-gulags/

A few of the Twitter comments to Stanley's Tweets:

Are crime rates & murder rates mentioned in the class, or just an hysterical spin about who gets convicted?

More than 400 shootings occurred across the country over the holiday weekend... In Chicago...16 were shot and killed...there were 89 shootings across the city. Over the first five months of 2021, more than 8,100 people were killed by gunfire.

Actually visits prisons in Russia, China, India, and Singapore before you short the Eighth Amendment system in US.

A philosophy professor playing amateur criminologist.

What are we supposed to do with people who break the law then? Violent offenders, rapists, murders? Build them a retreat?

(07-06-2021 12:55 PM)boss man Wrote:  This fall, Yale University plans to offer a course that draws comparisons between the US prison system and some of the most brutal regimes in history, such as the Soviet gulags, Nazi Germany, and communist China.

Philosophy Professor Stanley - one of two teachers in the course - points out that the USA traditionally imprisons 10% of all prisoners globally, with over 38m of the inmates being black. Stanley opines in a Tweet that few minorities have been the specific targets of incarceration for so many decades and asks "why perpetuate it?".

The course description and tweets on the topic are on the link here:

https://thecollegepost.com/yale-us-prisons-gulags/

A few of the Twitter comments to Stanley's Tweets:

Are crime rates & murder rates mentioned in the class, or just an hysterical spin about who gets convicted?

More than 400 shootings occurred across the country over the holiday weekend... In Chicago...16 were shot and killed...there were 89 shootings across the city. Over the first five months of 2021, more than 8,100 people were killed by gunfire.

Actually visits prisons in Russia, China, India, and Singapore before you short the Eighth Amendment system in US.

A philosophy professor playing amateur criminologist.

What are we supposed to do with people who break the law then? Violent offenders, rapists, murders? Build them a retreat?

Bring all of them to a remote island to live out the rest of their lives and let them figure it out there.