INTERCUT
ATLANTA’S TRUTHFUL DEPICTION OF THE AMERICAN PENAL SYSTEM
WRITTEN BY INAYAH BASHIR ILLUSTRATED BY LESLIE ROSARIO-OLIVO
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THE WILDLY INACCURATE
cultural critic Gina Dent: “The
depictions of prison that define
history of visuality linked to the
most people’s insight into the
prison is also a main reinforcement
penal system serve as a barrier in
of the institution of the prison
the progression towards bettering
as a naturalized part of our social
a highly defective and unjust
landscape. The history of film
system. In the first chapter of her
has always been wedded to the
book, Davis shares a quote from
representation of incarceration…