Prison Land

Author : Brett Story
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517906887
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Land written by Brett Story and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations-including property, work, gender and race-enacted across various spatial forms and landscapes within American life"--

Author : Brett Story
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452960887
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Land written by Brett Story and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations—including property, work, gender, and race—enacted across various landscapes of American life. Prisons, Brett Story shows, are more than just buildings of incarceration bound to cycles of crime and punishment. Instead, she investigates the production of carceral power at a range of sites, from buses to coalfields and from blighted cities to urban financial hubs, to demonstrate how the organization of carceral space is ideologically and materially grounded in racial capitalism. Story’s critically acclaimed film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is based on the same research that informs this book. In both, Story takes an expansive view of what constitutes contemporary carceral space, interrogating the ways in which racial capitalism is reproduced and for which police technologies of containment and control are employed. By framing the prison as a set of social relations, Prison Land forces us to confront the production of new carceral forms that go well beyond the prison system. In doing so, it profoundly undermines both conventional ideas of prisons as logical responses to the problem of crime and attachment to punishment as the relevant measure of a transformed criminal justice system.

Author : George Chetwynd Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In an Unknown Prison Land written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kelly Lytle Hernández
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631199
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Inmates written by Kelly Lytle Hernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.

Author : Mother Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lennie Spitale
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805424830
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Ministry written by Lennie Spitale and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering any pastor, educator, or lay leader in doing effective prison ministry by providing a thorough inside-out view of prison life.

Author : Eugene Victor Debs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walls and Bars written by Eugene Victor Debs and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene Debs, labor organizer and leader of the Socialist Party, describes his experience at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was imprisoned at the age of 63 for 32 months for criticizing the government's jailing of Americans who opposed World War I.

Author : Warren Rosenblum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606763
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Prison Gates written by Warren Rosenblum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, when reformers strove to replace state institutions of control and incarceration with private institutions of protective supervision. Reformers believed that private charities and volunteers could diagnose and treat social pathologies in a way that coercive state institutions could not. The expansion of welfare for criminals set the stage for a more economical system of punishment, Rosenblum argues, but it also opened the door to new, more expansive controls over individuals marked as "asocial." With the reformers' success, the issue of who had power over welfare became increasingly controversial and dangerous. Other historians have suggested that the triumph of eugenics in the 1890s was predicated upon the abandonment of liberal and Christian assumptions about human malleability. Rosenblum demonstrates, however, that the turn to "criminal biology" was not a reaction against social reform, but rather an effort to rescue its legitimacy.

Author : François Maurice Lepailleur
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of a Thousand Sorrows written by François Maurice Lepailleur and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada in 1837 and 1838 left manylegacies. Few accounts of those who took part record the plight of thePatriotes who for their actions were exiled to penal colonies inAustralia. One of these was Francois-Maurice Lepailleur, a baliff fromChateauguay. Condemned to death by a court-martial of dubious legality,his sentence was commuted to transportation for life, and he sailedwith 57 other Patriotes for New South Wales in September 1839. Morethan five years were to pass before they left the "Land of aThousand Sorrows" for home. Written secretly at Longbottom prison, Lepailleur's day-to-dayjournal is a unique document. As a camp sentry he observed conditionsboth inside and outside the prison. His daily record comments onbeatings, thefts, marital relations, wages and prices. A detailedacount is given of corrupt officialdom and police brutality, of thehatred inspired by collaborators and the solace brought by religion andthe kindliness of neighbours and the clergy. Above all, Lepailleurconveys the emotional dimensions of the experience and the gradualdegeneration of the human spirit. More than a moving testimony of prison life, the Journal givesunusual insight into the intimate concerns, character and mentality ofthe 19th century Canadien. It also reveals much about the personalitiesof the "popular" leaders of the Rebellions - a little knowngroup in Canadian history.

Author : Jozef Czapski
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372576
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inhuman Land written by Jozef Czapski and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of reportage about the Katyń Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the atrocity himself. In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of Poles—men, women, and children who were starving, sickly, and impoverished—were released from Soviet prison camps and allowed to join the Polish Army being formed in the south of Russia. One of the survivors who made the difficult winter journey was the painter and reserve officer Józef Czapski. General Anders, the army’s commander in chief, assigned Czapski the task of receiving the Poles arriving for military training; gathering accounts of what their fates had been; organizing education, culture, and news for the soldiers; and, most important, investigating the disappearance of thousands of missing Polish officers. Blocked at every level by the Soviet authorities, Czapski was unaware that in April 1940 many officers had been shot dead in Katyn forest, a crime for which Soviet Russia never accepted responsibility. Czapski’s account of the years following his release from the camp and the formation of the Polish Army, and its arduous trek through Central Asia and the Middle East to fight on the Italian front offers a stark depiction of Stalin’s Russia at war and of the suffering, stoicism, and bravery of his fellow Poles. A work of clear observation and deep compassion, Inhuman Land is one of the twentieth century’s indispensable acts of literary witness.