[lbo-talk] Angela Davis on Prisons & Police

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 23 08:37:26 PST 2016



> On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> Some years ago when I proposed the slogan, Abolish the Prison System, among
> the 'rebuttals' was one citing Davis as proposing reforms rather than
> abolishing.
>
> Well. She spoke here tonight, and her first word on prisons was that they
> could not be reformed; we had to demand their abolition.
>
> Ditto for Police.

That sounds very militant. Did she have any more to say about how it would work? Because she didn't in her book on the topic.



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