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    Angela Davis's radical manifesto challenges our core assumptions about justice. With translations in four languages and a 4.52 Goodreads rating, this foundational text sparked the modern prison abolition movement and inspired the prestigious Angela Y. Davis Prize. Can society exist without prisons? Davis dares us to imagine it.

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