Are Prisons Obsolete? Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Angela Y. Davis
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
209

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis Book Summary

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. 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. 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). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable.
In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

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Book Name Are Prisons Obsolete?
Genre Political Science
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Language English
E-Book Size 385.19 KB

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Abolition as a frame of mind. Whether you’re dabbling in abolition or are a full fledge abolitionist, Davis’s “Are Prisons Obsolete?” is a must read. While it was written over a decade ago, the words and facts still ring true today... perhaps even more so. Davis will take you from the modern day supermax and build upon the history of the penitentiary to help understand the framework behind the prison abolition movement. You’ll leave with a new mindset about how to view your world and how to fight for a better tomorrow.

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Summary of Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

The Are Prisons Obsolete? book written by Angela Y. Davis was published on 05 August 2003, Tuesday in the Political Science category. A total of 209 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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