Prisons Must Fall

  • Hardcover
  • Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025
By Kaba, Mariame; Jane Ball; Olly Costello (Illustrator)
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. New. Olly Costello. Unpageinated. Quarto [26cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. "From 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.

Prisons, they do no good.
They do not help.
They do not teach.

On 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.

Prisons hurt people and leave them lonely, without loved ones to comfort them or lend a listening ear." From the Publisher.

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