Guards Join Striking Prisoners in Alabama

[JahFocus CS]

@JahFocus CS @Madvillain yall have thoughts on this?

Not sure what the COs' angle is, to be honest. Maybe they realize this shyt is fukked up too.

 

[Tate]

Not sure what the COs' angle is, to be honest. Maybe they realize this shyt is fukked up too.

I mean, if the prison is egregiously overcrowded and underfunded, as most prisons are, then it negatively impacts the CO's as all bad workplace conditions impact all workers. While making common cause with CO's might be possible in a fight for immediate, material gains(cleaner facilities, lowered prison pop, even pacifying factors such as real wages for prisoners and better recreational equipment) extending that alliance to the end goals of partial if not total abolition seems extremely unlikely.

Who knows tho, I haven't followed this stuff nearly as closely as I'd like too.

 

[JahFocus CS]

I mean, if the prison is egregiously overcrowded and underfunded, as most prisons are, then it negatively impacts the CO's as all bad workplace conditions impact all workers. While making common cause with CO's might be possible in a fight for immediate, material gains(cleaner facilities, lowered prison pop, even pacifying factors such as real wages for prisoners and better recreational equipment) extending that alliance to the end goals of partial if not total abolition seems extremely unlikely.

Who knows tho, I haven't followed this stuff nearly as closely as I'd like too.

Good points. I'd be interested in knowing the racial demographics of the COs as well and if they've gone on strike in the past.

But yes, I think we can assume that COs will not be on board with prison abolition

Also was thinking about how the prison-industrial complex has been a state and federal jobs program for rural and suburban cacs