The prison system is racism’s most reliable institutional refuge.

Evidence

Despite the important gains of antiracist social movements over the last half century, racism hides from view within institutional structures, and its most reliable refuge is the prison system. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 275

Categorization

• XREF: Direct echo of earlier chapters arguing race has structured the prison; articulates the causal core of the book’s thesis. — connects to: Prisons preserve racist and misogynist practices society has nominally abandoned; Racism and profit, not crime, drive prison expansion; Prison racism operates clandestinely and extends beyond black-white binaries — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 62 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 275

Broader Connections

• Prisons preserve racist and misogynist practices society has nominally abandoned #corroborates (0.90)
• Racism and profit, not crime, drive prison expansion #expands (0.75)