What was the Stanford Prison Experiment?
If we stop building prisons and keep arresting more people, won’t we have prison overcrowding? And hasn’t prison overcrowding been a complaint of prison reformers for many years that U.S. prisons have finally improved on? If we stopped building more prisons and did nothing else, then logically we would end up with crowded prisons. That is not the intent of this campaign. Central to ADPSR’s vision of a better society is fundamental reform of our legal system. This includes the revocation of “three-strikes” laws, ending the “War on Drugs” policies that give long sentences for small-time drug possession and other trivial, non-violent activities, and the repeal of mandatory minimum sentencing that allows prosecutors, rather than judges, to set prison terms. Even simple administrative changes such as modification to parole return rules would sizably shrink the current prison population and improve the state of justice in the United States. Writing laws is the domain of lawyers and legislato
