However, I was expecting more information on how to organize around abolition, and more detailed thoughts form Angela on what a world without prisons would look like. i could have small quibbles with it on this stuff and I'd love it to have been longer but oh well.really good as a short primer on the history of prisons, the horrors of prisons, the racism involved, the economy exploitation and the way it links together with capitalism.
In that work, Davis paints prisons as human rights disasters.
As Angela Davis brilliantly argues, supported by well documented examples and references, prisons are an accepted part of our society - we take them for granted, and unless we have the misfortune of coming into contact with the system, they have become omnipresent and thus invisible. Davis delineates the history of prisons as well as how prisons perpetuate racism and sexism. We’d love your help. Start by marking “Are Prisons Obsolete?” as Want to Read:
What kind of people might we be if we lived in a world where: addiction is treated instead of ignored; schools are regarded as genuine places of learning instead of holding facilities complete with armed guards; lawbreakers encounter conflict resolution strategies as “punishment” for their crime instead of solitary incarceration? The title of Angela Davis’ book Are Prisons Obsolete (2003) sounds nothing short of utopian. Women are already enslaved in unpaid domestic labour so it is more cost effective to imprison them in their own homes where they can take care of their own children.
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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.
Incredibly informative and a pretty easy read.
It is clear that a loophole exists, which allows slavery to continue within the confines of prison walls. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. She further elaborates on the problems with the prison system if their ultimate goal is to reduce 'crime'.This slim volume is a fantastic introduction to abolitionist literature.
She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and … ), they have been fast growing in recent decades and taken advantage of for their corporate profit value - or another form of slavery. Angela Y. Davis, the revolutionary activist, author and scholar, seeks to answer these questions and the subsequent “why and how’s” that What if there were no prisons?
** Obsolesence is a word I hadn’t come across before reading Davis. Davis argues that it is a lack of imagination that allows for mass incarceration to go unquestioned as ‘on the whole people take prisons for granted.’ This leads to an unwillingness to talk about the alternatives to imprisonment – decriminalisation of of drug use, decriminalisation of the trade in sexual services and restorative rather punitive justice.If prisons are obsolete, then their permanence is ideological. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. In the seventeenth century the Gossip’s Bridle of Branks – a headpiece with an iron bit was which was forced into a woman’s mouth – was used to punish women in the domestic sphere, to silence and subdue ‘quarrelsome’ wives. I agree with a lot of what Davis touches upon in this and would recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about anti-prison movement. I like the way it sounds like a glowing kind of decay.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I appreciated the elucidation of the historical context of the prison industrial complex and its deeply entrenched roots in racism, sexism and capitalism. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison.
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asks us to imagine a world without prisons, a world more focused on healing and rehabilitation than punishment. The prison, as it is, is not for the benefit of society; its existence and expansion is for the benefit of making profit and works within a framework that is racist and sexist. Another amazing book from Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? There's a lot of important information here (most of which can be found in Michelle Alexander's excellent book There's a lot of important information here (most of which can be found in Michelle Alexander's excellent book people looking to understand prison abolishment & the deep-rooted influence of racismall people interested in the history of the PIC in the US, POCThis is one of the most comprehensive, and accessible, books I have read on the history and development/evolution of the prison-industrial complex in the United States. She almost seamlessly provides the social, economic, and political theories behind the system that now holds 2.3 million people, and counting, in the United States. Extremely eye opening book. As of April 2012 privately-run prisons account for 14 out of 139 prisons in England and Wales. I guess this isn't the book for that!
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