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Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis.
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INTRO: Prison Reform or Prison Abolition
"It is my hope that this book will encourage readers to
question their own assumptions about the prison."
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Angela Davis talking about the increase in ppl imprisoned. All these people locked up, and nobody thought to ask if this is actually working?
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Angela Davis is getting to the ROOT with these questions.
"Why do prisons tend to make
people think that their own rights and liberties are more
secure than they would be if prisons did not exist?"
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Davis uses California as an example, which makes it VERY clear that prisons are tied to capitalism.
"People wanted to believe that prisons would not only reduce crime, they would also provide jobs and stimulate economic development in out-of-the-way places."
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JOURNAL ABOUT THIS QUOTE
"This is the ideological work that the prison performs. It relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society especially those produced by racism and increasingly global capitalism."
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Davis calls thinking of a world without prisons a great feat of the imagination. We gotta dream bigger. We have to imagine more for what we want the world to be.
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