The Jail is Everywhere

The Jail is Everywhere
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9781804291320
ISBN-13 : 1804291323
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Book Synopsis The Jail is Everywhere by : Jack Norton

Download or read book The Jail is Everywhere written by Jack Norton and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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