Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Dr. Karl Menninger on the disgrace of the American prison system
There are other MDs- on the left- who have a lot to say about crime and punishment in our capitalist society .The famous psychiatrist Dr.. Karl Menninger wrote way back in 1973 : " People refuse to believe that jails are almost without exception horrible, destructive, ruinous, hideous atrocities of which every citizen should be ashamed ".
The good doctor then suggested that our jails should be " outlawed tomorrow by popular demand ". Dr. Menninger observed that most of the wretches in jail are not a violent threat to the public, but have " illegally taken someone else's property , and this is a cardinal sin tremendously important in a capitalistic society ".
Since Dr. Karl Menninger wrote " Whatever Became of Sin " our prison system has only become worse. So with regard to CRIME this brilliant psychiatrist wrote about " the crime of punishment ".
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