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Are Prisons Obsolete? Paperback - 2003
by Angela Y. Davis
World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates.
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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?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable.
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- Title Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Author Angela Y. Davis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York
- Date 2003-08-05
- ISBN 9781583225813 / 1583225811
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.9 x 0.4 in (17.53 x 12.45 x 1.02 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Prisons - United States, Prisoners - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 365.973
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- Black Issues Book Review, 03/01/2005, Page 53
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