“The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that…”— Angela Davis, amazon.com
“This is urgent. Continued failure to deal with our country’s race-based historical traumas dooms us to perpetually re-enact them.”— Fania Davis, yesmagazine.org