Are prisons obsolete?

by Davis, Angela Y., (Angela Yvonne)

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Title Statements

Full title :Are prisons obsolete? / Angela Y. Davis.

Summary

"With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis makes 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 on 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."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2003

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Seven Stories Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003

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Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781609801045, 1609801040
oclc:on1085905527
LC Classification:HV9471
Dewey Decimal:365/.973

Subjects

Alternatives to imprisonment Alternatives to imprisonment -- United … Complexe industriel carcéral -- États-U… Criminals -- Rehabilitation Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United S… Emprisonnement -- Alternative -- États-… LAW -- Criminal Law POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Prison abolition movements Prison abolition movements -- United St… Prison-industrial complex Prison-industrial complex -- United Sta… Prisons Prisons -- États-Unis Prisons -- United States Réhabilitation -- États-Unis Strafvollzug Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und … United States