5. Keep Your Community Safe, Abolish Your Local Prison
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Madeline and Kenna talk about prison abolition, the 13th amendment, and who profits off of our fear!
PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared
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FURTHER READING:
https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeQmVpnRMYE
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna. |
| 0:29.3 | Kenna, today I wanted to start by asking you, what's your favorite article of clothing right now? |
| 0:34.0 | My favorite article of clothing right now? Oh my gosh, now I am drawing a major blank. |
| 0:42.3 | Oh my goodness, because it changes just so much from day to day. |
| 0:49.3 | I go through phases where I'll have one t-shirt that is like my absolute favorite and then |
| 0:55.4 | it'll be like a you know goate-mesh shirt I got years ago and then it'll be um terrible new metal |
| 1:04.5 | shirt and then it'll be some sort of I don't know like weird skirt with like a cargo pocket. Oh, wait. Lately, it's been this |
| 1:13.5 | Miss 60 skirt from like 2005 that just has everything from 2005 that's like the button is too big. |
| 1:20.9 | The pockets are too low. Like, it's like next level. Okay. So if I were to steal that skirt from you that skirt you love so much |
| 1:32.4 | for all of its 2005ness would you say an appropriate response would be for me to spend the next |
| 1:38.6 | six months of my life being tortured and abused every day in inhumane conditions with little |
| 1:42.6 | to no contact the the outside world? |
| 1:46.2 | No, because I've had my favorite articles of clothing stolen or had to sell them for money, |
| 1:52.9 | and I've recovered. Right. Okay. What if I got like mad at you and then I just like punched you |
| 1:59.0 | in the face right now. Would you |
| 2:00.8 | want me to spend the next three years of my life being tortured and abused every day in |
| 2:05.4 | humane conditions with little to no contact to the outside world? Uh, no, but you're asking |
| 2:09.4 | the wrong person because I'd be like, I probably deserve being punched in the face. You don't. |
| 2:13.7 | I would have probably actually, like, apologize. apologize and be like, I'm sorry. |
| 2:18.3 | No. |
| 2:19.9 | Well, |
| 2:20.5 | the point I'm getting at, |
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