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The US has a "love affair with incarceration," says England's respected Guardian newspaper. Spanking new prisons dot the landscape. Prison population has risen 500% since 1972, while the population on the whole only rose 28%. African Americans constitute 50% of all inmates. They receive longer and harsher sentences than whites. In addition, blacks are disproportionately represented on death row.
Angela Davis, a brilliant orator, is internationally renowned as a writer, scholar and activist. She lectures widely on the prison industrial complex. The author of Women, Race and Class and Women, Culture and Politics. She teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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