![]() ![]() She argues forthrightly for decarceration, and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. ![]() Uprisings in response to the hellish conditions Black folk have been forced to live in, both in and out of prison, have been. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. Davis has written, 'prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.' Prisons do not contain a 'criminal population' running rampant but rather a population that society has repeatedly failed. Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. 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). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis (Paperback 2003) at the best online prices at eBay Free delivery for many products. 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. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. 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. ![]() Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. ![]()
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