““Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient—people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled. Meanwhile the ghetto in the outside world is a prison as well, and a much more difficult one to escape from than this correctional compound.””
![“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.” quote by Angela Y. Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/816/angela-y-davis-34412_capitalism_prison-relieves-us-of-the-responsibility_3003925.jpg)
