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A 3 page paper analyzing the position of Angela Davis that prisons are racist, unjust and should be abolished. Davis (2003) presents compelling arguments for aligning prisons with racism and slavery, and the alternatives she provides certainly are worth pursuing. They are unlikely to have the effect she seeks, but merely calling attention to the issue in the way that she does effectively leads the reader to agree that the present system is indeed obsolete. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KScrimPrisObs.rtf
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Prisons Obsolete? (2003), author Angela Y. Davis flatly states that yes, they are. Furthermore, they must be replaced with a "decarceration" process and incarceration prevention programs. Unjust Justice
Davis (2003) views imprisonment as it is practiced in America as being descended from slavery and claims not only that the entire system is
racist, but that it also protects its racism. She demonstrates that African-Americans and Native Americans literally have a better chance of going to prison than of getting a solid
public education. Exponential Growth Davis (2003) has been a highly liberal activist for practically all of her adult life; one constant throughout her
life has been an overwhelming distrust of "the system." With that backdrop, the import of her own assessment of the growth of the prison population over the past thirty
years is telling. She says that in the late 1960s she learned that there were about two million prisoners in the US and thought that was an excessively high
number. "Had anyone told me that in three decades ten times as many people would be locked away in cages, I would have been absolutely incredulous" (Davis, 2003; p.
10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the
country most likely to imprison its citizens. Though the population of the United States is "less than five percent of the worlds total ... more than twenty percent of
the worlds combined prison population can be claimed by the United States" (Davis, 2003; p. 11). If the trend continues, then in another
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