{"product_id":"9798888904411","title":"Prisons Must Fall","description":"Author: Mariame Kaba\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798888904411\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 16 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 32\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Mariame Kaba, New York Times-bestselling author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us,and social worker Jane Ball comes a powerful book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring alternatives, gorgeously illustrated by Olly Costello.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrisons, they do no good.\u003cbr\u003eThey do not help.\u003cbr\u003eThey do not teach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a moonlit road, tucked away from prying eyes, a child sees a prison complex-cinder blocks, watch towers, barbed wire. Page by page, we come to see the prison as a child sees it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrisons hurt people and leave them lonely, without loved ones to comfort them or lend a listening ear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs dandelion stars float up in the air, this dreamscape becomes a hope-scape, where love transcends the prison walls. All the families and friends of the people in the prison march and protest in beautiful song, march together to a new way and a new dawn-in this case a cooperative housing and community center, next to a neighborhood greenhouse for restoration and healing. A new world, where connection and repair are fundamental, and even tangible, as people around a table quilt messages, \"I hear you. I'm sorry for what I did. How can I make it better?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mariame Kaba, a longtime activist, together with co-author Jane Ball, present solutions that do not involve incarceration, such as meeting people's basic needs, restorative justice, and community support-seeds for a safe world. Illustrator Olly Costello provides textured images of a global majority community and a grey, monotone backdrop that is overtaken by joyful colors. A gentle but effective addition to all social justice bookshelves and libraries. Discussion questions included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParents, teachers, and librarians looking for books on the prison industrial complex and prison reform\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKids who are interested in fairness and social justice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders who love exceptional and sophisticated illustration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46688089505950,"sku":"ADS-9798888904411","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798888904411.jpg?v=1775631879","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798888904411","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}