A review by titalindaslibrary
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

Add this to your list of Necessary Reading! Angela Y. Davis doesn't mince words and gets right to the point, which I appreciate with such an informative book. 

The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs—it relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.