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The Jail is Everywhere
Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
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eBook - ePub
The Jail is Everywhere
Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
About this book
Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails are now the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. As jails grow, they transform the region around them. Whole towns and small cities see health care provision and employment opportunities become subordinate to carceral concerns.
If jails are everywhere, resistance is too. Campaigns against new or expanded jails have emerged in large and mid-sized cities and in dozens of small towns and rural counties across the US. While there is some coordination and communication between those involved in these struggles, they tend to be isolated from each other and from broader movements. The Jail Is Everywhere brings together an incredible range of knowledge and experience from jail fights across the country. It maps this new terrain, foregrounding the hard-forged analyses of anti-jail organizers themselves as they take us through campaigns that, while appearing local, are at the new center of the carceral state.
With a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
If jails are everywhere, resistance is too. Campaigns against new or expanded jails have emerged in large and mid-sized cities and in dozens of small towns and rural counties across the US. While there is some coordination and communication between those involved in these struggles, they tend to be isolated from each other and from broader movements. The Jail Is Everywhere brings together an incredible range of knowledge and experience from jail fights across the country. It maps this new terrain, foregrounding the hard-forged analyses of anti-jail organizers themselves as they take us through campaigns that, while appearing local, are at the new center of the carceral state.
With a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Jail Is Everywhere
- 1. A Quiet Jail Boom
- 2. The Long Fight Against Jail Expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- 3. County Jails and the Immigrant Dragnet
- 4. Decarcerating Sacramento: Confronting Jail Expansion in Californiaâs Capital
- 5. âNot One More Dollar Goes into This Jailâ: Becoming Abolitionists in Upstate New York
- 6. âYou Start with Where You Are and with the People Who Are Around Youâ: Organizing Against Jails Across Tennessee
- 7. Carceral Communities: Local Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex in the Mountain South
- 8. Communities Over Cagesâthe (Ongoing) Campaign to Close the Atlanta City Jail
- 9. Federal Courts, FEMA Dollars, and Local Elections in the Struggle Against Phase III in New Orleans
- 10. Real Solutions: Organizing for Alternatives to a Big New Jail in a Small Republican County
- 11. Lessons from the No New Jails Network and the New York City Struggle Against Carceral Feminism
- Conclusion: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: âThe County Jailâ