DONATE: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

Buy this book for a person locked up in Newark, NJ. Ten Dollar Books covers shipping and mails it right to them. -- This is a short, concise book that probably could have been titled Intro to Prison Abolition, but it is nevertheless a good book that explains a few different angles of the problems with imprisonment. Angela Davis is a clear writer in general. She is someone who purposefully points to the effects of globalization. Here and in other books, she always reaches around to show how problems in the U.S. are inter-connected with problems elsewhere. Like, in this book, she brings up the ways that American prisons have influenced prisons around the world, particularly in South Africa, and the link between prison and militarization. Something else she’s careful to do is point to how this isn’t just a white and black problem either. Following 9/11, middle easterners were targeted and the number of latinos who are imprisoned has always been high. Davis explains how all of this