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

4.0

This gives an excellent overview of the prisons and the rise of the prison industrial complex. I like Davis' writing style and her ability to make it plain. (Also, I just realized this is my first Davis full length book-- can't believe it took me so long to get here). The only drawback was that I didn't get a full sense of what abolition looks like. It's clear it would involve many, many changes to many, many systems (including housing, education, immigration policy, mental health care, etc. etc.) and given the state of our governmental legislature right now, I just can't see us getting to a place of abolition, so I leave this book feeling even more hopeless than going into it....which I don't think was Davis' intention.