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‘Can you imagine a world without prisons?’

Yes, I can, but it was difficult at first because these cages have been a part of my life since the age of five when police kicked in our door, took my dad to jail and left me with my mom who was suffering from a heroin addiction. In a world without prisons, my dad would have gotten help instead of a cage and my mom would have gotten treatment instead of being left alone to raise me.

In a world without prisons, young people won’t feel like they have to kill themselves because the prosecutor won’t offer them a plea that’s less than a 25-year-to-life prison sentence.

In a world without prisons, people will only