#and ik I said he will likley go to prison but I don't actually know

[vampir3sfall]

I don't mean to derail op's post but I understand that many people think that rape is an unforgivable crime and probably punished by the death penalty. That doesn't mean that the entire US justice system should work based on how some people think. This also reminds me when I found out that a coworker of mine who was my friend had been raping his sibling. When I told my therapist about it, she said 'I hope he gets the help that he needs". Not "I hope he goes to prison" or "I hope he dies" or any other vengeful thing, but hoping that he could get the help he needed to not do that again and change as a person. But if (and likely when) he goes to prison, he won't be getting the help he needs. No one who goes to prison for rape gets the help that they need. The prison system either creates a)people who will sit forever in our system taking up our tax dollars without ever actually changing or doing anything or b) people who get out of prison and do it again. While I would be horrified and disgusted if I saw this person again, something else that fucked him up happened to him, and caused him to take it out on other people. How would putting him in prison help that? What happens when he gets out of prison and sees his sibling again? While I don't have the answers I know that making him sit in prison is not going to help him actually change in any way.

Extremely tired of ppl tryna dunk on prison abolition by being like "well what are we gonna do with all the rapists then huh"