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Mumia: Even Angela Davis Shocked by US Mass Incarceration
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
05 Nov 2019
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Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, notes that even trailblazing prison abolition scholar Angela Davis, herself a former political prisoner, underestimated Americans’ willingness to incarcerate millions of their fellows. Abu Jamal quoted Davis, who wrote that, back in the late Sixties she could not fathom that the US prison population would increase ten-fold in the next few decades. “No, this will never happen,” she wrote. “Not unless this country plunges into fascism.” 

Mass Black Incarceration

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