Jail Is Everywhere - Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration

A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL

List of contents

Foreword
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Introduction: The Jail Is Everywhere
- Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept

1. A Quiet Jail Boom
- Jasmine Heiss

2. The Long Fight Against Jail Expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- An Interview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails

3. County Jails and the Immigrant Dragnet
- Silky Shah

4. Decarcerating Sacramento: Confronting Jail Expansion in California’s Capital
- Liz Blum

5. "Not One More Dollar Goes into This Jail": Becoming Abolitionists in Upstate New York
- Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier

6. "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

7. Carceral Communities: Local Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex in the Mountain South
- Amelia Kirby

8. Communities Over Cages—the (Ongoing) Campaign to Close the Atlanta City Jail
- Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware

9. 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

10. Real Solutions: Organizing for Alternatives to a Big New Jail in a Small Republican County
- Sarah Westover and Matt Witt

11. 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

Acknowledgments

Appendix: "The County Jail"
- Stanley Boone

About the author

Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept

Product details

• Authors: Jack Norton, Jack Pelot-Hobbs Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Judah Schept
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781804291313
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-131-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education