Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the p…

Angela Davis
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ✨ Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ✨ Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)

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