Are Prisons Obsolete By Angela Davis Sparknotes

Author’s Credibility

Angela Davis, activist, educator, scholar, and politician, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama. Active at an early age in the Black Panthers and the Communist Party, Davis also formed an interracial study group and volunteered for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while still in high school In 1960, Davis traveled to Germany to study for two years, and then to the University of Paris for another year. After returning to the United States, Davis attended Brandeis University, where she graduated in 1965. Davis then returned to Germany for further study before enrolling in the University of California, San Diego, where she earned her M.A. degree in 1968. Davis became

Davis worked to free the Soledad Prison Brothers and befriended an inmate, George Jackson.This action relates to her book “Are Prisons Obsolete?” in this book Davis explains how society feels the need to incarcerate the fallen members of society. As. Davis also notes, the growth of the penal industry within the last three decades in particular, and the last century more generally, is also related to the backlash against emancipatory movements worldwide. In the United States, the end of slavery and the growth of civil rights of African American people were clearly related to the exponential growth of the rate of imprisonment of black people in America. Again,Davis argues just as the end of slavery was once seen as unimaginable, current thinking would have us all believe that it is impossible to imagine the end of

and the other books she has written. She herself was incarcerated which explains her state of mind when writing her books. She part of the system once, the prison industrial complex. Which explains her strong argument on why she believes prison should be abolished. When the justice system first was introduced its sole purpose was to be a temporary place where people thought about their wrong doing and then released back into society, however the justice system does not serve its sole purpose. Davis made that clear in Are Prisons Obsolete? Davis argues that prison later became cages filled with human who are seen with no room for improvement or reform. Davis herself suffered discrimination and abuse. Which explains the force she comes in when talking about gender and harassment. Everybody has a way of writing and reading. Angela Davis has her own way with valid background to support her way of thinking, She is amazingly