Prison System


Are Prisons Obsolete?
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Orange Is the New Black
Just Mercy
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
Chain-Gang All-Stars
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
If Beale Street Could Talk
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
The Nickel Boys
Michel Foucault
Humanity does not gradually progress from combat to combat until it arrives at universal reciprocity, where the rule of law finally replaces warfare; humanity installs each of its violences in a system of rules and thus proceeds from domination to domination. The nature of these rules allows violence to be inflicted on violence and the resurgence of new forces that are sufficiently strong to dominate those in power. Rules are empty in themselves, violent and unfinalized; they are impersonal and ...more
Michel Foucault, Nietzsche, la Genealogía, la Historia

Tiya Miles
Michigan is still home to one of the most extreme human containment systems in the United States. Its prison population has increased by 450 percent since 1973, and the state maintains a higher rate of imprisonment than most countries. African Americans are the largest incarcerated group by far in Michigan, with a total population of 14 percent and a penal population of 49 percent. Latinos and Native Americans are incarcerated in Michigan at rates equal to their population percentage. However, w ...more
Tiya Miles, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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