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A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL
List of contents
Foreword- Ruth Wilson GilmoreIntroduction: The Jail Is Everywhere
- Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept1. A Quiet Jail Boom
- Jasmine Heiss2. The Long Fight Against Jail Expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- An Interview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails3. County Jails and the Immigrant Dragnet
- Silky Shah4. Decarcerating Sacramento: Confronting Jail Expansion in California’s Capital
- Liz Blum5. "Not One More Dollar Goes into This Jail": Becoming Abolitionists in Upstate New York
- Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier6. "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 Hearts7. Carceral Communities: Local Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex in the Mountain South
- Amelia Kirby8. Communities Over Cages—the (Ongoing) Campaign to Close the Atlanta City Jail
- Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware9. 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 Coalition10. Real Solutions: Organizing for Alternatives to a Big New Jail in a Small Republican County
- Sarah Westover and Matt Witt11. 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 NetworkConclusion: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
- Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah ScheptAcknowledgmentsAppendix: "The County Jail"- Stanley Boone
About the author
Jack Norton is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University.Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana.Judah Schept is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion.Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is also Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Honors include the American Studies Association Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship (2012); the Association of American Geographers' Harold Rose Award for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (2014); the SUNY-Purchase College Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize for Social and Environmental Justice (2015-16); and the American Studies Association Richard A Yarborough Mentorship Award (2017).
