The jail is everywhere : fighting the new geography of mass incarceration / edited by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept ; foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Foreword / Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- Introduction: The jail is everywhere / Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept -- A quiet jail boom / Jasmine Heiss -- The long fight against jail expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois: an interview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails -- County jails and the immigrant dragnet / Silky Shah -- Decarcerating Sacramento: confronting jail expansion in California's capital / Liz Blum -- "Not one more dollar goes into this jail": becoming abolitionists in upstate New York / Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier -- "You start with where you are and with the people who are around you": organizing against jails across Tennessee an interview with Dawn Harrington and Gicola Lane of Free Hearts -- Carceral communities: local resistance to the prison-industrial complex in the Mountain South / Amelia Kirby -- Communities over cages -- the (ongoing) campaign to close the Atlanta City jail / Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware -- Federal courts, FEMA dollars, and local elections in the struggle against phase III in New Orleans an interview with Lexi Peterson-Burge of Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition -- Real solutions: organizing for alternatives to a big new jail in a small Republican county / Sarah Westover and Matt Witt -- Lessons from the No New Jails Network and the New York City struggle against carceral feminism an interview with Mon Mohapatra of the No New Jails Network -- Conclusion: fighting the new geography of mass incarceration / Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept -- Appendix: "The county jail" / Stanley Boone.
Summary:
"Contributions from activists, scholars, and journalists describing the effects of the quiet jail boom in the US and sharing strategies from recent fights against jail construction"-- Provided by publisher.
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