Description: In this extraordinary book, Angela Davis challenges us to confront the human rights catastrophe in our jails and prisons. As she so convincingly argues, the contemporary U.S. practice of super-incarceration is closer to new age slavery than to any recognizable system of criminal justice.Mike Davis, author ofDead CitiesandCity of Quartz In this brilliant, thoroughly researched book, Angela Davis swings a wrecking ball into the racist and sexist underpinnings of the American prison system. Her arguments are well wrought and restrained, leveling an unflinching critique of how and why more than 2 million Americans are presently behind bars, and the corporations who profit from their suffering.Rep. Cynthia McKinney [D-Georgia] As Angela Y. Davis has written, prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. Prisons do not contain a criminal population running rampant but rather a population that society has repeatedly failed. Uprisings in response to the hellish conditions Black folk have been forced to live in, both in and out of prison, have been criminalized as well. In her bookAre Prisons Obsolete?, Davis effectively analyzes the purpose of prisons. These prisons represent the application of sophisticated, modern technology dedicated entirely to the task of social control, she writes, and they isolate, regulate, and surveil more effectively than anything that has preceded them. An institution based on social control instead of social well-being is an institution that needs to be abolished. Colin Kaepernick,fromAbolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Police & Prisons See More Table Of Contents Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 IntroductionPrison Reform or Prison Abolition? CHAPTER 2 Slavery, Civil Rights, and Abolitionist Perspectives Toward Prison CHAPTER 3 Imprisonment and Reform CHAPTER 4 How Gender Structures the Prison System CHAPTER 5 The Prison Industrial Complex CHAPTER 6 Abolitionist Alternatives Resource 1B
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
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Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults, Ages 9-12
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Short Stories
Unit Type: Unit
Literary Movement: prison esploitation
Era: 2003s
Personalized: No
Features: Paperback
Unit Quantity: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Are Prisons Obsolete?
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: Human Rights, Public Policy / Social Policy, Penology, Criminal Law / Sentencing
Item Height: 0.4 in
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Genre: Law, Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 3.8 Oz
Item Length: 6.9 in
Author: Angela Y. Davis
Book Series: Open Media Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
