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“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.”
Source: “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex”, ColorLines, 1998
Context In a 1998 essay for ColorLines, she examined the rapid expansion of US incarceration and the corporate interests she saw profiting from it.
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