Summary Of Are Prisons Obsolete By Angela Davis

Freedom can have many meetings to many people. Freedom to some may mean to be free in a trapped society filled with rules and regulations. Freedom can be revealed to the naked eye in things such as laws, organizations, and even clubs. Freedom to me is living your life however you choose, wherever you choose, and whenever you choose to do so. Angela Davis had once lost those privileges. She was subjected to the U.S Prison system and charged with someone else’s crimes. She had faced the darkness of humanity.
The book “Are Prisons Obsolete” tells how people who are imprisoned face it to. “Are Prisons Obsolete” attempts to deconstruct the idea of prisons. It tells how that too harsh of an punishment could never be an effective way to crime. Also, it proposes that under racist and sexist government, and social classes , prisons are bound to be harsh and discriminatory institutions. Angela Davis argues that prison helps us see problems with our society and especially the problems that are

At one point in time there were not too many prisons around but then it got to the point where the prisons has gotten so crowded that the number of prisons increased also including the prisons expenses. The populations are increasing in prisons and are becoming extremely crowded. She includes statistics in her writings.: “200,000 people in prison” in the late 1960’s to “more than 2 million people now inhabit U.S prisons, jails, youth facilities and detention centers.” Many documents have been made to bring to the society outside of prison that prisons are becoming a place for people who don't have shelter or health care a home. People see prison as a site which people who are unliked, unfavored, and undesired to be stationed and placed. It is seen that an increasing number of African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are more likely to be imprisoned then to have an