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  Abolition Democracy
Beyond Prisons, Torture and Empire
Angela Davis
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Paperback: 136 pages
ISBN-10: 1583226958
ISBN-13: 9781583226957
Price: £7.00
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Collects a series of interviews the African-American intellectual gave about resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behaviour for a democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis gave a series of interviews in which she talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state" and about having been put on the FBI's "most wanted" list.
Throughout these interviews, Angela Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed "chain of command" and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.
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