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"The most eye-popping statistics alone cannot relate the enormity of its psychological and societal impacts. This concise, illustrated primer is a collaboration between one of mass incarceration's sharpest opponents, James Kilgore, and information artist Vic Lui."--Page [4] of cover.
About the author
James Kilgore is a researcher and activist based in
Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of six books, including the National
Book Foundation Award-winning A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration.
He drafted four of those volumes during his six and a half years in
California prisons. He is a research fellow at MediaJustice, where he
founded the Challenging E-Carceration project and is director of
advocacy and outreach for FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign,
Illinois.
Vic Liu is an artist and author who uses design to
communicate complex information with empathy. Most recently, Vic
published the expanded version of her visually designed masturbation
sex-ed book, Bang! Masturbation for All Genders and Abilities, with Microcosm Publishing.
Summary
Mass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience.
The
most eye-popping statistics alone cannot relate the enormity of its
psychological and societal impacts. This concise, illustrated primer is a
collaboration between one of mass incarceration’s sharpest opponents,
James Kilgore, and information artist Vic Liu. It brings to life the
histories and means of daily survival of the marginalized people
ensnared in this racist, ableist system of class-based oppression. The
book elegantly weaves together the most insightful activist scholarship
with vivid testimonials by incarcerated people as they fight back
against oppression and imagine freedom.
Those targeted for incarceration do not simply submit to a monochromatic existence behind bars. The Warehouse showcases
the abolition futures being crafted from the inside as people resist
through direct action and artistic expression. This book is designed to
inform, enrage, and ultimately inspire the same radical hope propelling
incarcerated underminers of the carceral state.
