Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

#A Commentary About the Prison Industrial Complex and the Prison Abolition Movement


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1h 37m 2011 HD

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a critical analysis of the disfunctionality and violence of the prison system.


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