Capitalism and the Prison Industrial Complex

Clip from the documentary Visions of Abolition, which was designed as a teaching tool to expand knowledge about the history of the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement in the United States. Featuring Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Susan Burton, Melissa Burch, Dylan Rodriguez, and Andrea Smith.

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