Are prisons obsolete? / Angela Y. Davis.
From the Publisher: Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privatization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills...
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New York :
Seven Stories Press,
[2003].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Prison reform or prison abolition?
- Slavery, civil rights, and abolitionist perspectives toward prison
- Imprisonment and reform
- How gender structures the prison system
- The prison industrial complex
- Abolitionist alternatives.