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La prison est-elle obsolète ? by

remoir's review against another edition

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5.0

Another banger from my girl Angie. Chapter 4 went off

evasampaio's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

om4im's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

death to colonies everywhere 🔻

I love Angela Davis.

Not a new concept for me. I've heard first-hand experiences of detainees at Abu Ghraib and the way american terrorists treated "prisoners" (I use quotation here as many were political prisoners) in Iraq is no doubt the same way they treat their own people back in so-called america. The standards they practice in the Middle East will always be used against their own citizens.

I also appreciated how Davis covered so-called australia history/current barbaric practices in prisons.
What I find so odd, is the relabeling of prisons here to "Correctional Centres" 🤡 (we can't even refer to them as prisons at work anymore) to give the illusion that something has changed when in fact they remain some of the most harmful and violent places in our society.

anjalikrishnakumar's review against another edition

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challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

The US is always so much worse than I could have imagined. Yes, prisons are in fact obsolete.

vezreads's review against another edition

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challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

luckywitch's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

j_ax2's review against another edition

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4.5

Good, especially in the way it ends, but I had basically already heard everything in this book before. A really good intro for anyone less informed tho!

bree_klass's review against another edition

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5.0

Yes they are.

candelibri's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

4.5

What else is there to say - there is a reason Angela Y. Davis is a titan. A must read. 

huey_rambo's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0