La prison est-elle obsolète ?

In a rare and welcome exception to Betteridge's Law, Davis convincingly walks us through the main reasons that the modern institution of prisons is unacceptable by any reasonable moral standard, and does not actually fulfill any social function. Well, apart from allowing corporations to appropriate public resources and enslave people for their labor. Fuck prisons, ACAB, restorative justice now.

I've been around prison abolitionists, and researched a little into prison abolition prior to reading, but this book still greatly improved my understanding of the topic. It's clear that the modern prison abolition movement is built around the tenets that Davis lists here, and you've probably picked up on some of them through osmosis, but I guarantee there's still stuff in here for you.