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This 10 page paper examines the prison system through Marxist theory. It is suggested that the prison system exists for the benefit of the larger society under capitalism. The prison system is depicted as being class and race based. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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social control. It is a last resort. Of course, people would not want to lock others up unnecessarily. Further, the prisons are overcrowded. In fact, there is a sense that
not enough people are serving time because of the overcrowded conditions. At the same time, there is the NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) problem where people do not want
prisons built nearby. They want these miscreants out of earshot and eyesight. They want to feel good about putting convicts away and many upstanding citizens feel righteous about the whole
thing. They look at Martha Stewart for example and say she deserves what she got because she broke the law. Of course, they give no thought to the fact that
at any time they could be wrongly accused of a crime and forced to sit on death row or perhaps see a child go away to prison for twenty years
because he or she was smoking pot with a few friends. It could be that a college student happened to be holding on to a stash for another friend. What
the circumstances are do not matter under the mandatory drug laws that see many otherwise ordinary upstanding citizens go to prison for the long haul. And while there is one
way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. There is the Marxist point of view. Karl Marx noted in 1859 that
there is something awful at the very core of a social system that allows the increase in wealth without reducing misery and crime ("Prisons," 2001). To Marx, there has
always been a sense of unfairness as it respects the haves and the "have nots," something that has been upheld in his Communist Manifesto. The idea that society allows some
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