A review by jw2869
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis

5.0

Returning to this text after reading it in college and it is much more meaningful to me now as I deepen my understanding of how hyper-globalized capitalism, the prison-industrial and military-industrial complex continue to shape American policy domestic and foreign. I wasn't thinking deeply about prison abolition then, but I am now and this book has provided some much needed grounding for my imaginings of what's possible and the unfinished work of true abolition. More than anything this book reminds me of the importance of a radical imagination that is not constrained by false narratives of what's possible.