"Prisons Make Us Safer" by Victoria Law
And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
This book challenges the assumption that incarceration makes communities safer, arguing that prisons and policing perpetuate violence, racial injustice, and social harm rather than preventing it; through historical analysis, data, personal testimony, and profiles of survivors and activists, it exposes the limits and collateral damage of carceral responses to crime and intimate violence. It critiques how policies around domestic violence, drug use, and public safety funnel people—especially those from marginalized communities—into punitive systems that fail to address root causes, and proposes community-based alternatives such as transformative justice, harm reduction, and restorative practices as more effective paths to accountability and safety.
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