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Book #12 of 2024: “Prisons Make Us Safer and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration” by Victoria Law

If you‘re at all curious about abolition, read this book. Law presents and then counters each argument with impeccable research. She includes interviews with incarcerated people, studies from across the world, and case examples to show how prisons and other forms of mass incarceration fail to keep us safe while perpetuating systems of oppression.

This book has given me a lot of food for thought. It‘s not just a case of “do the crime, do the time”, there‘s so many issues related to why people commit crime like addiction, abuse and poverty. This book tackles theses complex issues in an easy to understand way and really makes you think
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