Abolition Democracy
Beyond Prisons, Torture and Empire
Angela Davis

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Revelations about US policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Grahib prison story in April 2004. It is within this context that African-American intellectual Angela Davis gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. She talks about her own incarceration as well as her experience as 'enemy of the state' and about having been put on the FBI's most wanted list. Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins.

325 #5 (Feb 08)
An Insurgent Magazine of Social War and Anarchy
325 Collective

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An irregular anarchist magazine of incendiary texts and images dedicated to the free society and open minds. Featured in these pages are reports, news and images from the struggle against hierarchy and capitalism and the words and ideas of prisoners, who are locked down resisting the system. View the contents.

Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault

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In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul. Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that between school, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control the use of an individual's time and space hour by hour.

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Davis

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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.