At least in this quote, she isn't talking about abolition of prisons, but about "the eventual abolition of prisons as __the dominant mode of punishment__."
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> prisons." Here's a bit from a long interview:
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> > The most difficult question for advocates of prison
> abolition is how to establish a balance between reforms that
> are clearly necessary to safeguard the lives of prisoners
> and those strategies designed to promote the eventual
> abolition of prisons as the dominant mode of punishment. In
> other words, I do not think that there is a strict dividing
> line between reform and abolition. For example, it would be
> utterly absurd for a radical prison activist to refuse to
> support the demand for better health care inside Valley
> State, California's largest women's prison, under the
> pretext that such reforms would make the prison a more
> viable institution. Demands for improved health care,
> including protection from sexual abuse and challenges to the
> myriad ways in which prisons violate prisoners' human
> rights, can be integrated into an abolitionist context that
> elaborates specific decarceration strategies and helps to
> develop a popular discourse on the need to shift resources
> from punishment to education, housing, health care, and
> other public resources and services.
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> http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davisinterview.html
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