Letter: Prisons are inhumane and racist

The white public has been forced to face, yet again, the realities of our racist and brutal policing systems. The people demand justice. The people want abusive police charged and sent to prison. But what are prisons if not another extension of our abusive justice system?Black, brown and indigenous communities whose families and friends have been disproportionately targeted by the police and sentenced to prison know that prison is a continuation of brutality. Given the inhumane living conditions