“The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited. Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison.”
Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Welcome to the “land of the free”, where 2.2 million people live life behind bars. Here we’ll be exploring why Mass Incarceration is not only a violation of human rights and liberties, but also contradicts values of environmental an economic sustainability.
