Are Prisons Obsolete Analysis

Angela Davis’s “Are Prisons Obsolete”? she basically talks about how prison systems were back then and how they relate to now and days. She talks about capital punishment and how in some countries including the United States it hasn’t been abolished. As well as that she compares it to the talk about abolishing the death penalty and how some countries already abolished the death penalty. From reading that what I get out of it is that America is still a somewhat barbaric country that relies on capital punishment and fear to run itself. She also talks about race talk and “antiprison activist” later on in the chapter. Throughout the first chapter there were some very interesting …show more content…
For example, in my recent paragraph with the George Bush comment and how that reflects on black children’s lives. Now you have to grow up with the image of being a criminal and or an evildoer because of the mindset of certain people and the words of another. Ms. Davis stated that she first became involved with the antiprison activism in the late 1960’s while racism was still prevalent in America as well as known. Back then there was around 200,000 people in prisons never the less about three decades later ten times that many people were in prisons. She went and said if someone would have told her that back then she would’ve responded with “As racist and undemocratic as this country may be, I do not believe that the U.S. government would be able to lock up so many people without producing power public resistance. No, this will never happen, not unless this country plunges into fascism.”. You may not think it’s a lot of people in prisons, but in poor Black and Latino communities it takes a toll because most of prison systems consist of just that. Also Native American and certain Asian-American cultures