- Alternatives to imprisonment, Prisons, Human Rights, Criminal Law
>Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privatization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills. - publisher (allegedly)
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- Author
- Angela Y. Davis, Aurora Ballester
- First published
- April 2003
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Seven Stories, Tigre de Paper Edicions, Seven Stories Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, Italian, cat, English
- ISBN
- 9788833893273
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Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis">Angela Davis</a> on Wikipedia (Wikipedia contributors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>).
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