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Economics is a very powerful motive towards driving mass incarceration. A lot of people are eating off of the arrest, prosecution, and the imprisonment of people in this country. If mass incarceration wasn't practical do you think America would have the highest number of people in prison per capita of any other industrialized nation?What I find astonishing is that many who fight against mass incarceration seem not to account for the economic motives behind it when they formulate their strategies to address it. These beautiful people who embrace prison abolition have good intention, but I don't think many of them have a clue what it will take to effectively go up against the prison industrial complex and those who have a lock 'em up mentality. I intimately know the harm the system of mass incarceration causes. I am in solitary confinement for defying it's reactionary policies. Now some of the young prisoners I was helping in general population are slowly falling back under the sway of the corrupt and negative