Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

Name: Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
Director: Setsu Shigematsu
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-01-03
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Melissa Burch, Susan Burton, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Dylan Rodriguez

A Commentary About the Prison Industrial Complex and the Prison Abolition Movement

Documentary

January 3, 20111h 37m

Overview

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a critical analysis of the disfunctionality and violence of the prison system.

Director

Cast

Ruth Wilson GilmoreHerself

Dylan RodriguezHimself

Andrea SmithHerself