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.

Are Prisons Obsolete?

📝 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.

Publication Info

Author: Angela Y. Davis
Published: April 1, 2003
ISBN: 9781583225813
Language: English

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