Are prisons obsolete?
In this extraordinary book, Angela Davis challenges us to confront the human rights catastrophe in our jails and prisons. As she argues, the contemporary U.S. practice of super-incarceration is closer to new age slavery than to any recognizable system of "criminal justice". 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. Davis explores the biases that criminalize communities of color, politically disenfranchising huge chunks of minority voters in the process. Uncompromising in her vision, Davis calls not merely for prison reform, but for nothing short of "new terrains of justice"
Print Book, English, 2003
Seven Stories Press, New York, NY, 2003