Persy’s Reviews > Are Prisons Obsolete? > Status Update

“One of the many ruses racism achieves is the virtual erasure of historical contributions by people of color.”

“The prison has become a key ingredient of our common sense. It is there, all around us. We do not question whether it should exist. It has become so much a part of our lives that it requires a great feat of the imagination to envision life beyond the prison.”

“The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited.”

“The prison is present in our lives and, at the same time, it is absent from our lives.”