Are Prisons Obsolete?

Name: Are Prisons Obsolete?
Author: Angela Davis

by Angela Davis

Prison system as tool of racial control; case for abolition over reform

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Angela Davis

American scholar, activist, and former Communist Party member whose trial and acquittal in 1972 made her a global symbol of radical politics. Women, Race & Class analyzes the intersections of those three systems of oppression. Are Prisons Obsolete? made the case for prison abolition.

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