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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 …

Long story short: yes

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In a rare and welcome exception to Betteridge's Law, Davis convincingly walks us through the main reasons that the modern institution of prisons is unacceptable by any reasonable moral standard, and does not actually fulfill any social function. Well, apart from allowing corporations to appropriate public resources and enslave people for their labor. Fuck prisons, ACAB, restorative justice now.