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

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Topic

Prison

Author

Angela Davis

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Black activist Activist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Random House, 1974, ch. 1.

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Source
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Citation

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