Prisons don’t solve poverty; they sustain it. They strip people of everything, profit from their labour, and then release them back into deeper poverty.

Let’s start talking about the economic and moral cost of funding punishment instead of care.
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What’s left out are the intersections: race, class, gender, disability, and criminalisation. I’d really like us to start talking about what gets erased when we keep talking about poverty without complexity, and about why that erasure matters.
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These stories flatten lived realities into neat categories that policymakers can manage: stories that soothe rather than confront, that individualise structural violence instead of naming it.
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We hear about people “doing it tough,” about homelessness and “crimes of poverty,” but never about the racial, gendered, and systemic forces that make some people poor, criminalised, and excluded in the first place.
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