Are Prisons Obsolete? book
by Angela Davis Author
According to Angela Davis...they are! Angela, best known for her association with the Black Panther Party in the 60's and 70s, is now a professor at the University of California and here delivers a balanced mix of new radical thought and well-researched history. With new prison construction at an all-time high, and prison populations increasing at unparalleled rates, now more than ever we need a critical examination of what can be rightly be called the prison industrial complex. She has said, "It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo." Angela Davis, you're much more than a hairdo! A rad feminist with an educated take on prison reform! A fine primer full of intelligent arguments!!
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Comments & Reviews
wow, when did this come back in print? i was lucky enough to find an original copy in an used bookstore a year ago. i'm glad to see it return.
There was a time in America when to call a person an 'abolitionist' was the ultimate epithet. It evoked scorn in the North and outrage in the South. Yet they were the harbingers of things to come. They were on the right side of history. Prof. Angela Y. Davis stands in that proud, radical tradition.