Are Prisons Obsolete? Davis Angela Paperback
Are Prisons Obsolete? Davis Angela Paperback With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements,…
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Are Prisons Obsolete? Davis Angela Paperback
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. 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. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison.
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. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. 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