D Reznik

“Instead of asking whether anyone should be locked up or go free, why don’t we think about why we solve problems by repeating the kind of behavior that brought us the problem in the first place?”
― Ruth Wilson Gilmore

“Despite the important gains of antiracist social movements over the last half century, racism hides from view within institutional structures, and its most reliable refuge is the prison system.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

“Racism provides the fuel for maintenance, reproduction, and expansion of the prison-industrial complex.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“we must not be seduced into believing that improving the system is the same as dismantling or transforming it. As Angela Davis has explained, if we accept uncritically the notion that prisons offer an answer, and that all we must do is improve our so-called justice systems, we evade the “responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness