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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Author Angela Y. Davis
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
ReleaseDate 2003-08-05
PublicationDate 2003-04

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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.

Author Angela Y. Davis
Binding Paperback
EAN 9781583225813
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ISBN 1583225811
Label Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
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NumberOfPages 128
ProductGroup Book
PublicationDate 2003-04
Publisher Seven Stories Press
ReleaseDate 2003-08-05
SKU 9781583225813
Studio Seven Stories Press
Title Are Prisons Obsolete?
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