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Angela Y. Davis: Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback, 2003, Seven Stories Press)

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case …

[C]ompanies that service the criminal justice system need sufficient quantities of raw materials to guarantee long-term growth . . . In the criminal justice field, the raw material is prisoners, and industry will do what is necessary to guarantee a steady supply. For the supply of prisoners to grow, criminal justice policies must ensure a sufficient number of incarcerated Americans regardless of whether crime is rising or the incarceration is necessary.

Are Prisons Obsolete? by  (Page 94)

citing Steve Donziger (1996)