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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

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headachesince03's review

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challenging dark informative inspiring

4.75


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antijeffbozo_love2read's review

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challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25


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informative medium-paced

4.5

Foundational text is foundational 

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ashleybeereads's review

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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0


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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

A powerful read, and a perspective shift I had never thought to question before. I'm glad I had the author-read audiobook, spending five hours listening to the incomparable Angela Davis was well worth the time.

"What would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice? 

"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society."

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jessthanthree's review

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5


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eve81's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5


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oworthyfool's review

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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0


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challenging informative reflective

5.0


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sydneybedell's review

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challenging informative fast-paced

4.5


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