Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis Aurora Ballester First published 2003

About this book

>Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privatization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills.

- publisher (allegedly)

Subjects

alternative
alternatives to imprisonment
complexe industriel carcéral
criminal law
criminals
criminals, rehabilitation
emprisonnement
human rights
law
political science
prison abolition movements
prison-industrial complex
prisons
public policy
rehabilitation
réhabilitation
sentencing
social policy
strafvollzug
umschulungswerkstätten für siedler und auswanderer