A review by schufman
Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption by Walidah Imarisha
5.0
This book was incredible. It was hard to read not because it was poorly written or dense, but because this book demanded I think and rethink. A lot. About who I am, the country and the skin that I live in, and the bare injustice of the prison system.
This book really asked me to recognize how much I don't know about the history and the actualities of our prison system, and how the many ways we do violence to each other and to ourselves are connected. Bodily autonomy and consent. Justice and revenge. Power and community. Incarceration and slavery. The challenge of living your beliefs when they hurt.
This book really asked me to recognize how much I don't know about the history and the actualities of our prison system, and how the many ways we do violence to each other and to ourselves are connected. Bodily autonomy and consent. Justice and revenge. Power and community. Incarceration and slavery. The challenge of living your beliefs when they hurt.