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  Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Davis
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Paperback: 128 pages
ISBN-10: 1583225811
ISBN-13: 9781583225813
Price: £8.00
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Since the 1980s prison construction and incarceration rates in the U.S. have been rising exponentially, evoking huge public concern about their proliferation, their recent privatisation and their promise of enormous profits. But these prisons house hugely disproportionate numbers of people of colour, betraying the racism embedded in the system, while studies show that increasing prison sentences has had no effect on crime. Instead, the growing number of prisons have attracted vast amounts of capital - from the construction industry to food and health care provision and prison labour. Here, esteemed civil rights activist Angela Davis voices her well-supported opinion that the 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.
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