“Critiques of the prison industrial complex undertaken by abolitionist activists and scholars are very much linked to critiques of the global persistence of racism. Antiracist and other social justice movements are incomplete with attention to the politics of imprisonment.”

—  Angela Davis , Are Prisons Obsolete?

Source: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Chapter Five

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