Prisons are barbaric because they all treat individuals in an uncivilized, a dishonourable, way. This society, like all other Western societies and indeed all societies in the world, accepts Prisons, and regards them as necessary.
 

Prisons are inhuman because they use the tactics of the cowardly bully; that is, they are based upon the law of the bully: those who have power (the Prison guards, the Prison officials such as the Governor) demand that prisoners do what they are told or they will suffer. And those in power have the right, the authority, to use whatever force they deem necessary to enforce their will. Thus, if someone does not "behave" and do as they are told and live in the degrading way which all Prisons demand, then they can be physically subdued, thrown into a special punishment cell, and punished by being given a longer prison sentence.  Quite often, such troublesome inmates are physically attacked by the guards: "to teach them a lesson and show them who is the boss". This is ignoble; it is barbaric.

Successive governments have accepted and condoned this barbarism, this institutional bullying. In the so-called "democratic" countries of the West, this bullying is most often a moral type of blackmail: "Do what we say and you will be released from Prison early. Disobey us, and we will keep you in Prison for longer." But even in these countries there is often real bullying, real physical intimidation of inmates, by both guards and fellow prisoners.

Prison is an affront to human dignity; it is denial of the most fundamental rights of a human being. Prisons treat people like animals: caging them; punishing those who "misbehave" and rewarding those who do what they are told. The system only works because the inmates know that they are powerless: any attempt at rebellion will be swiftly put down by extreme, brutal and if necessary lethal force, as has happened many times in the past. So the inmates are cowered into submission, into accepting, year after year after year, the degrading way of life which exists in all Prisons.

The conditions inside modern Prisons in our society may be better than in the past - plentiful food, warmth and so on - but otherwise Prisons are still barbaric, primitive institutions based upon the law of the bully and dedicated to enforcing the dictates, the authority, of the government of the day. Prisons have made bullying into an art.
 

Primative Retribution verses Civilized Change

Whatever a person has done - or is alleged to have done - nothing justifies this institutionalized bullying, this inhuman, degrading treatment.

No society which accepts and condones Prisons can call itself a civilized society. It is uncivilized, inhuman, for a society to accept and condone the concept, the idea, of forcefully punishing a person for doing what that society has made "illegal" through some law or laws. The whole concept, the idea, of some government, some Institution, exacting "retribution" from a person by confining them to Prison is uncivilized.

No words are too strong to condemn the idea of Prison, and the barbaric system of retribution, of "criminal law", which underlies all modern societies. For these societies are based upon the primitive uncivilized idea that people cannot fundamentally change, and should seldom if ever be given a "second chance".

The civilized way, the human way - the Aryan way - is for those found guilty of some wrongful deed to be given a choice between: (1) making amends in some way, through voluntary work in the community or through compensating their victims or victims financially, which may involve the offender working in a job for a set period and giving most of their earnings to the victim or victims; (2) exile, that is, through leaving the society and making a new life for themselves somewhere else.

That is, the civilized way, the human way, is to respect the dignity of the person, whatever that person has done or is alleged to have done: to still allow them a choice; to still allow them to be free; and most important of all to allow for them to change themselves for the better through honest hard work.
 

The very foundation of civilized life is freedom: the ability of the individual to be free, to have a choice; to be able to decide their own fate. And it is this freedom, and the honour and dignity which goes with it, that society has taken away with its primitive idea of punitive punishment, of primative retribution, and its primitive institution of Prison.

It must be repeated: Whatever a person has done - or is alleged to have done - nothing justifies this institutionalized bullying, this inhuman, degrading treatment.

What is uncivilized is to deprive an individual of their freedom, for however short a time: to force them, either physically through superior force, or morally through moral blackmail, to do as they are told.

What is uncivilized is to forcefully restrain a person: to fetter them in any way, through handcuffs, or chains, or any form of restraint, including the use of "medicines". To do this, is to treat a human being like an animal: it is to deny their human status.

Such a use of force, such a taking away of the liberty of the individual, is barbaric.
 
 

The Modern Idea of Rehabilitation of Offenders

Of course, most modern societies have tried in some ways to move toward the "rehabilitation of offenders" but this is mostly done within the Prison system. That is, the bullying, undignified way of life of Prisons is still the basis for dealing with offenders. All that has been done is to try and give those in Prison some training, some skills, so that when they are released, they may stand a better chance of getting a job.

The fundamental way of dealing with offenders is still the same as it was: the severe punishment of removing them from society, from their family and friends, and condemning them to live as caged animals. Well fed, and sometimes "well treated" by their guards, but nonetheless still caged like animals, and still treated according to the law of the bully.
 

The Civilized Way of Exile

Some people cannot or do not wish to change, as some people may not initially benefit from being given a second chance. The civilized way to deal with such people - that is, with those who have not benefited from having to work to recompense their victim or victims, and/or who continue to re-offend - is to exile them; to remove them from society and thus make them into "outlaws".

The problem with this, in this modern world, is that there are now few, if any, areas where people can be exiled to, or where such outlaws could go. Few, if any, nations in the world today would accept such exiles. There are few, if any, opportunities today for such exiles to start a new life, to make something out of themselves.

That this is so is a sad reflection on the modern world: on its lack of humanity, based as this lack of humanity is on a primitive, uncivilized, irrational, view of human nature itself.

To be civilized is to be optimistic about human nature: to accept that most people, given the right circumstances, and the opportunity, can change themselves for the better. To be civilized is to accept that there are few really bad people in this world, and that most people who offend some law or other, can change for the better, can contribute in a positive way, given the right circumstances, the right opportunity, and most importantly given the right difficulties to overcome.

The civilized way is to allow for such a change in people: to give them a chance, and present them with challenges and difficulties, for most human beings, when faced with problems, with great difficulties, with great challenges - whatever their past deeds - will rise to the challenge.

Lacking vast, underpopulated, ungoverned, undiscovered, pioneering areas and territories - which would provide the opportunities, the difficulties exiles needed to change - the civilized thing to do is for nations to get together and establish some area, some territory, where exiles can go to and live. Or failing this, for one nation, opting to live in a civilized way and so abolish its Prisons, to set aside an area of its own territory for such exiles: where those exiled can freely live and which that nation has declared to be "outside the law", with there being an established and guarded border.
 
 

Bad by Nature

Of course, even given such opportunities as this, given such places of exile as these, there will probably always be a few individuals who by nature are bad and who will never change.

How to deal will this small minority? Such really bad people - who have not been reformed through honest hard work - will be exiled, and having been exiled, will be free to prey upon other exiles: free to do bad and possibly terrible things. But such bad people will always be exiled as individuals; they will arrive in the outlaw territory by themselves, and given the fact that these bad people will be in a minority even in such outlaw territory, they will have to face others who are not so bad as them and who will not be prepared to be bullied or intimidated by such people.
 

What is important about exile, about an outlaw country - a place where there is no established law - is that individuals have the freedom, and the ability, to defend themselves. That is, that the only law in such places is the law of personal honour: people are responsible for themselves. They have the freedom to act: to determine their own future.

Naturally, they may well be gangs of bad people formed, or gangs led by a bad person, who will prey upon other exiles. But it is up to these other exiles to deal with this, through defending themselves. They will at least have the opportunity, the freedom, to do this, and may well seek other people like themselves, and so join together to fight these bad gangs. History is replete with such examples: indeed, the creation of civilization itself arose from such conflict, from free men and women, fundamentally good in nature, getting together to take on those who were bad in nature or being led by someone who was bad.

The knowledge of such things as this in such outlaw territories will be sufficient reason for some offenders - given the choice of exile - to decide against exile, just as it will make others, both bad in nature and good in nature, willingly take or accept such exile.

In a sense, such bad people as will exist in such outlaw lands will be dealt with by Nature: by the natural process of growth, of change; by the natural processes, the natural laws, which exist and have always existed.
 
 

A New Nation

What will happen over time in such outlaw territories is that a balance will be attained between those who have made something of themselves, and changed for the better, and those who are and who will remain, bad in nature, with there being "wild" areas controlled by these bad people, and areas controlled by those who wish to live with some kind of "law and order".

It may well be that, over time, those who have changed will want to control in some way those who live in such uncontrolled areas, and so desire to bring their own new laws into these "wild areas".

So it may well be that a new nation is one day born in the outlaw territory, with its own identity, its own unique way of life, its own character, thus beginning a new episode in the saga of our human history, of our continuing change and evolution. For this new society may and should wish to continue the human way of living, and so desire to create its own area where it can send its own exiles.....
 

This natural, organic, civilized change and human progress can and should go on, century after century. One day in the not too distant future, we should establish our first colonies on other worlds - perhaps at first on the planet Mars, and then later on, on some planet orbiting some far distant star. The way of exile is the way such colonies can grow: the way we as a species can and should continue growing; the way we can and should produce new cultures, new nations, new diversity.

Understood in this way, the way of the present - of Prisons, of bullying - is incredibly wasteful of our human potential, condemning us as it does to living in a primitive, inhuman, way.

In contrast to the present, the way of exile, of reform, is our opportunity to act like human beings: an opportunity to treat others in a human way, as well as an opportunity to continue the saga of our human evolution.
 

David Myatt
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