As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. OL2709370W Page_number_confidence 91.67 Pages 134 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200304133306 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 141 Scandate 20200303101814 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog marygrove Scribe3_search_id 31927002091970 Tts_version 3.With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-127)Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:02:31 Boxid IA1789422 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Backed by growing numbers of prisons and prisoners, Davis analyzes these institutions in the U.S., arguing that the very future of democracy depends on our ability to develop radical theories and practices that make it possible to plan and fight for a world beyond the prison industrial complex
As we make our way into the twenty-first century-two hundred years after the invention of the penitentiary-the question of prison abolition has acquired an unprecedented urgency. "In thinking about the possible obsolescence of the prison," Davis writes, "we should ask how it is that so many people could end up in prison without major debates regarding the efficacy of incarceration." Whereas Reagan-era politicians with "tough on crime" stances argued that imprisonment and longer sentences would keep communities free of crime, history has shown that the practice of mass incarceration during that period has had little or no effect on official crime rates: in fact, larger prison populations led not to safer communities but to even larger prison populations. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills. Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privatization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y.
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