Her book challenges us to stand up to the human rights havoc in our correctional facilities. As she so convincingly contends, the contemporary U.S. routine of super-imprisonment is nearer to new age slavery than to any conspicuous arrangement of criminal equity. One quote from her book that presents the matter in a rhetorical question, “the fact that more than two million people (out of a world total of nine million) now inhabit U.S. prisons, jails, youth facilities, and immigrant detention centers. Are we willing to relegate ever larger numbers of people from racially oppressed communities to an isolated existence marked by authoritarian regimes, violence, disease and technologies of seclusion that produce severe mental instability?” Davis even faced the effects of system herself when she was accused for plotting or conspiring regarding the 1970 armed control of a Marin County, California, court, in which four people were murdered. She was discharged in a government trial after a persistent amount of protests demanding to “Free
Her book challenges us to stand up to the human rights havoc in our correctional facilities. As she so convincingly contends, the contemporary U.S. routine of super-imprisonment is nearer to new age slavery than to any conspicuous arrangement of criminal equity. One quote from her book that presents the matter in a rhetorical question, “the fact that more than two million people (out of a world total of nine million) now inhabit U.S. prisons, jails, youth facilities, and immigrant detention centers. Are we willing to relegate ever larger numbers of people from racially oppressed communities to an isolated existence marked by authoritarian regimes, violence, disease and technologies of seclusion that produce severe mental instability?” Davis even faced the effects of system herself when she was accused for plotting or conspiring regarding the 1970 armed control of a Marin County, California, court, in which four people were murdered. She was discharged in a government trial after a persistent amount of protests demanding to “Free