““She didn’t want to admit to herself, let alone to the outside world, that she had been placed in a ghetto, just as ghetto as they had once had in Poland. 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.””
![“[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)
