Thursday, May 20, 2010

Angela Davis on Prisons

via novaya zemlya:

Dr. Angela Davis — Are Prisons Obsolete?

“Under conditions of global capitalism, prisons have become a place to deposit those who no longer have a place in society, surplus populations, those who are considered to be garbage. So that is why all over the world — not only in the U.S., but all over the world — we see people of color imprisoned.”