According to Angela Davis...they are! Angela, best known for her association with the Black Panther Party in the 60's and 70s, is now a professor at the University of California and here delivers a balanced mix of new radical thought and well-researched history. With new prison construction at an all-time high, and prison populations increasing at unparalleled rates, now more than ever we need a critical examination of what can be rightly be called the prison industrial complex. She has said, "It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo." Angela Davis, you're much more than a hairdo! A rad feminist with an educated take on prison reform! A fine primer full of intelligent arguments!!