Publication Date
Winter 2022
Abstract
While there are varied assertions as to what “defunding the police” and “reinvesting in communities” mean, I propose that one step towards this goal would be to redistribute the funds from Corrections Offices and bureaucratic management to incarcerated workers to ensure they are paid a suitable wage. If an increase in inmate pay appears outrageous to some, it is only because it entails beginning to treat inmates as full-fledged human beings and, in doing so, upsets the power dynamic between the incarcerated and their keepers.
Recommended Citation
David Campbell, Decarceration Means Funding the Incarcerated, 25 CUNY L. Rev. F. 8 (2022).