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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging …
The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle for Black liberation while centering …
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of …
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles …
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 Angela Y. Davis (Page 94)
citing Steve Donziger (1996)
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement …
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement …
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case …
Since the 1980s, the prison system has become increasingly ensconced in the economic, political and ideological life of the United States and the transnational trafficking in U.S. commodities, culture, and ideas. Thus, the prison industrial complex is much more than the sum of all the ails and prisons in this country. It is a set of symbiotic relationships among correctional communities, transnational corporations, media conglomerates, guards' unions, and legislative an court agendas. If it is true that contemporary meaning of punishment is fashioned through these relationships, then the most effective abolitionist strategies will contest these relationships an propose alternatives that pull them apart.
— Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (Page 107)
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case …
"All I saw before me were acres of skin. It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time." The hundreds of inmates walking aimlessly before him represented a unique opportunity for unlimited and undisturbed medical research. He described it in this interview as "an anthropoid colony, mainly health" under perfect control conditions.
— Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (Page 90)
