Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media)

by Angela Davis

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With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?)...Read more
  • ISBN10 1583225811
  • ISBN13 9781583225813
  • Publish Date 5 August 2003
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Seven Stories Press