Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kaba, Mariame

Titel

Picturing a World Without Prisons

Ist Teil von

• American studies (Lawrence), 2021-07, Vol.60 (3), p.185-189

Ort / Verlag

Lawrence: Mid-American Studies Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Instead of spending money on drug treatment programs, meaningful employment initiatives, health care, affordable housing, and public education, our tax dollars funnel the most vulnerable populations into the prison system so that they may languish with little-to-no access to needed resources. If residents were considered privileged community stakeholders, Cabrini Green might have offered affordable housing and included communal establishments such as the Cabrini Freedom School, The Cabrini Peoples Law Office, The Museum of the African Diaspora, The Center for Transformative and Restorative Justice, The Cabrini Center for Youth Advancement, The Cabrini Community Garden, The Cabrini Senior Center, The Cabrini Technology Education Center, The Cabrini Community Food Coop, The Cabrini Public Library, The Cabrini Center of Continuing Education, The Cabrini Center for Medicine and Wellness... [...]when we envision a world without prisons, we think of children reading piles of books for pleasure.