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	1	+====My value for today’s round will be that of justice, defined simply and generally as giving each their due.====
	2	+====The topic frames the issue of police corruption and oversight in the wrong way; rather than approaching the issue of qualified immunity through a lens of incrementalism and reformism, one needs to approach it through the lens of underlying forces that contribute to police corruption and overreach. And thus, my criterion for achieving justice is through change decentered from reform.====
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	4	+== Contention 1: Rejection of incrementalism==
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	9	+====A)One needs to reject all instances of incrementalism in policy-making, these are short-term methods which ultimately fail. Cassandra Shaylor writes,====
	10	+Shaylor, Cassandra. “Reform And Abolition: Points of Tension And Connection.” Defending Justice. No Date. Web. October 07, 2016. http://www.publiceye.org/defendingjustice/organizing/shaylor_reform.html
	11	+Because the existing framework for arguments for changes to the system has become so limited, in many instances
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	13	+oach, abolishing three strikes is a step toward eliminating the prison as a central feature of contemporary life.
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	18	+====B)A methodology of decarceration is the only solution to the problems that the prison industrial complex poses; the praxis of the affirmative doesn’t go far enough. Cassandra Shaylor writes further,====
	19	+Rather than proposing reforms that are readily co-opted to grow the prison system, arguments can be made that critique prison conditions while also challenging the expansion of prisons. Activists can: argue that decarceration should be the answer to prison overcrowding; organize urban/rural coalitions to close prisons in rural locations and stop new prisons from being constructed; work against privatization while simultaneously fighting against imprisonment in any facility; argue for improvements to healthcare that actually decrease prison spending by providing alternative sentencing and/or releasing sick people in prison.
	20	+====Contention 2: Cooption and Race====
	21	+====A)The affirmative holds no way of solving for their claims- the state coopts all instances of reformism to meet their own ends, and a limited approach to limiting qualified immunity will do just that. She writes again,====
	22	+In many instances, the Right attempts to co-opt reformist language to its own ends to justify and grow the system. Efforts in California to implement a strategy of decarceration for seriously and terminally ill prisoners through compassionate release have been co-opted by that state, for example. California anti-prison activists have argued that prisons are ill-equipped to deal with the needs of seriously and terminally ill prisoners and therefore they should be released to their families or to hospices in their communities. However, in an effort to keep people in prison and increase the number of beds within the system, the rhetoric deployed by anti-prison activists to persuade politicians and the general public that people in prison who are dying deserve to die with dignity is being used by the California Department of Corrections itself. The CDC is now arguing for the creation of hospices within prisons and corrections-controlled skilled nursing facilities in the community that could house prisoners in locked wings.9 This rhetorical reappropriation has had a secondary effect on the prison population by obstructing activist efforts to prevent people, whose seriously compromised health render them particularly vulnerable to the harms of imprisonment from going to prison in the first place-mainly because the State can argue that such people's health will no longer be compromised during imprisonment, so the argument goes, because there are places within the prison to accommodate them.10 Because the rhetoric of public safety has become so entrenched, the State can make the claim that the expansion of the system into skilled nursing care is necessary because a person in prison is a threat to society merely by virtue of her status as a prisoner, regardless of her physical or mental capacity. In fact, the strength of those arguments has increased to the point of absurdity: ostensibly out of security concerns, in 2004 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have saved California millions of dolllars by allowing the early release of the 13 people in California's prisons determined to be permanently unable to tend to any of their daily needs or in a vegetative state.
	23	+====B) Reformism fails in the context of decarceration. State institutions normalize the racial order. The plan may win an isolated battle, but will lose the war. Michelle Alexander writes in 2012,====
	24	+Alexander, Michelle. “New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness.” BOOK. 2012. Web. October 07, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-CrowIncarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431.
	25	+The list could go on, of course, but the point has been made. The central question for racial justice advocates
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	27	+tem of control and every racial caste system that has existed in the United States or anywhere else in the world.
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	33	+==Contention three: What can we do==
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	38	+====Change only exists when we fully close prisons, an affirmation of complete decarceration. Maya Schenwar writes in 2014,====
	39	+Schenwar, Maya. “Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better.” Berrett-Koehler. 2014. Web. October 07, 2016. http://www.alternet.org/books/what-if-we-abolished-prisons.
	40	+Historian and activist Dan Berger points to the importance of such concrete change-making— closing buildings, re
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	42	+ard un-canceling people—not just by fighting for their release, but by recognizing and supporting their humanity.
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	47	+==Underview==
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	52	+Our first contention speaks to how reformism QI isn’t tackling the root of the problem and it shall be further reciprocate the corruption.
	53	+Our second contention speaks to how reforming QI will only enable co-option by the right; further using the reforms to the advantage of the prison-industrial complex.

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	1	+Fred Robertson

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	1	+Lincoln East SB

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	1	+Lincoln NE Nguyen Neg

Title

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	1	+01 - Abolish prisons

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	1	+Lincoln Southwest