Mariame Kaba Prisons Must Fall Hardcover Book

From Mariame Kaba, New York Timesbestselling author of We Do This Til We Free Us, and social worker Jane Ball comes a powerful book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring alternatives, gorgeously illustrated by Olly Costello. Prisons, they do no good. They do not help. They do not teach. On a moonlit road, tucked away from prying eyes, a child sees a prison complexcinder blocks, watch towers, barbed wire. Page by page, we come to see the prison as a child sees it. Prisons hurt people and leave them lonely, without loved ones to comfort them or lend a listening ear. As dandelion stars float up in the air, this dreamscape becomes a hopescape, where love transcends the prison walls. All the families and friends of the people in the prison march and protest in beautiful song, march together to a new way and a new dawnin this case a cooperative housing and community center, next to a neighborhood greenhouse for restoration and healing. A new world, where connection and repair are fundamental, and even tangible, as people around a table quilt messages, "I hear you. Im sorry for what I did. How can I make it better?" In Prisons Must Fall, Mariame Kaba, a longtime activist, together with coauthor Jane Ball, present solutions that do not involve incarceration, such as meeting peoples basic needs, restorative justice, and community supportseeds for a safe world. Illustrator Olly Costello provides textured images of a global majority community and a grey, monotone... | Mariame Kaba Prisons Must Fall Hardcover Book