Are Prisons Obsolete?

 By Angela Y. Davis

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. 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). Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable.

Published by Seven Stories Press 

0.4" x 6.9" x 4.9" / 0.25 lbs

128 pages