Davis’s argument that the health and education systems need to be enhanced in order to create safer environments and not increasing the prison populations reminds me of the quote from Matthew Hefti in our first reading in class where he states that incarcerated people are Prisoners of War. Both likeminded arguments explain the rock and the hard place incarcerated people are stuck between before they enter the system. I read “Oppression” by Marilyn Frye in my Women’s Studies theory class and in this reading, Frye describes this rock and hard place as “systematically related barriers and forces” and explains how those that are oppressed are molded, immobilized, and reduced due to these barriers. It is clear how not having access to a decent education