We Do This 'Til We Free Us: The Punishment System — Safety, Power, and Accountability
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba as a systems-level analysis of the prison-industrial complex and the institutional logic of punishment.
The discussion examines how incentive structures, political institutions, and cultural assumptions about justice interact to shape policing, prisons, accountability, and social control. The analysis focuses on persistence mechanisms, feedback loops, and the distinction between punishment and responsibility.
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