The forces of gratuitous violence meted out as penal punishment, for itself exploit and hide behind civilized morality. So for example prison officials will say they are all about promoting the stability of family in a prisoner's existence. Because the prison official recognizes civilized morality anticipates and expects it who will disagree that family is good? So the prison official dresses up their deeds in the language of family-friendly but in practice, the prison official's actions make a mockery of family-friendly.
Now consider this, crime, punishment, prison, and religion have went hand in hand in this nation. Despite the fact, religion has historically been present and co-existed with prison, the imprisonment as equally as it permeates society and it has played a one-dimensional role, it has ignored the family-friendly gambit of the prison official's gratuitous violence meted out as penal punishment. So for example despite the family-friendly pronouncements by prison officials. What we see in practice are road blocks, impediments and obstacles erected ingeniously between the prisoner and family with tacit approval by religion irrespective of faith or denomination as affirmative penal punishment. Which despite the gratuitous violence accepted as a fact of the prison condition we see the impotence of religion to call out the prison official's behavior as not only family unfriendly but violative of civilized morality.
If religion is to mature beyond its idealistic singularity and become materially objective it must confront the gratuitous violence meted out as penal punishment by the prison official.
William Thorpe is held in Solitary Confinement at the Eastham Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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