Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis’s classic short book denaturalizes prisons as historical institutions and asks readers to imagine justice and safety beyond incarceration.
📝 Book Review & Summary
This is a core entry point into prison abolition. Davis asks why modern societies treat prisons as the default answer to harm, poverty, racialized control, and public fear, and shows how that answer itself produces violence.
For FemRes, it helps move feminist anti-violence politics away from harsher punishment and toward structural safety: housing, education, health care, racial justice, and community accountability.
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