nonbinarypastels:

a take too hot for tumblr: people in prison are still entitled to basic human rights. they’re still entitled to being properly fed and given access to clean water, given access to healthcare, being in an environment where they are not at risk of being abused either by fellow prisoners or by prison staff, and otherwise being treated humanely—this includes ALL prisoners: ones who are innocent of what they’re in prison for, ones who are in prison for very minor victimless crimes, and ones who are genuinely guilty of the worst crimes imaginable.

and if you’re like “they don’t deserve that”, it isn’t about what they ‘deserve’ – it’s about how we as a society choose to treat people, making the decision that no one deserves to be treated as less than human no matter who they are or what they’ve done, and standing up against abusive justice systems and the abusive prison industrial complex in their entirety.