Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
University of Chicago press Daniel LaChance November 1, 2016 In… Read More »Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
Books
Down on Parchman Farm
The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta Ohio State University… Read More »Down on Parchman Farm
Death and Other Penalties
Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration Geoffrey Adelsberg Lisa… Read More »Death and Other Penalties
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault In this important work, Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms… Read More »Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Dan Berger In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a… Read More »Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners… Read More »Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Regina Kunzel Sex is usually assumed to be a closely… Read More »Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Arresting Citizenship
The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control University of Chicago… Read More »Arresting Citizenship
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical… Read More »Are Prisons Obsolete?
23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Yale University Press Keramet Reiter Originally meant to be brief… Read More »23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement