Tues 2.09.10| Incarceration As Social Control
While racial justice advocates focus on affirmative action, millions of African Americans have lost their basic civil rights -- the right to vote, to have access to housing and education -- through the...
View ArticleWed 12.01.10| Industrialized Punishment
More than one in every one hundred adults in the US is behind bars. What accounts for the 450% increase in the number of incarcerated people since 1980? Is it rising crime rates, or racism, or...
View ArticleMon 1.17.11| Incarceration As Social Control
While racial justice advocates focus on affirmative action, millions of African Americans have lost their basic civil rights -- the right to vote, to have access to housing and education -- through the...
View ArticleMon 1.13.14 | Incarceration, Disability, and Capitalism
Incarceration is commonly understood as detention in prisons and jails. Liat Ben-Moshe argues that the term's meaning should be broadened to include confinement in places like psychiatric hospitals,...
View ArticleWed 7.02.14 | Incarceration, Disability, and Capitalism
Incarceration is commonly understood as detention in prisons and jails. Liat Ben-Moshe argues that the term's meaning should be broadened to include confinement in places like psychiatric hospitals,...
View ArticleWed 9.10.14 | Realpunitik
In this age of austerity, what is cost-conscious policy-making doing to incarceration and punishment in the US? Are arguments that highlight fiscal prudence making headway in areas where appeals to...
View ArticleMon 9.22.14 | Day Labor Nightmare
Formerly incarcerated people, who employers largely shun, are recruited by day labor companies. Do these outfits help ex-inmates get back on their feet, or do they exploit a vulnerable, often...
View ArticleTues 11.11.14 | Out of Prison, Into What?
In this era of mass incarceration, more than half a million people leave state and federal prisons each year. Where do they go, and what do they encounter and experience as they re-enter society? David...
View ArticleTues 12.30.14 | Incarceration and Beyond
In this look back at four conversations about incarceration and penal policies in the US, Emily Baxter confronts the distinction often made between criminal and "clean"; David Harding describes the...
View ArticleWed 4.22.15 | Beyond Autonomy; Toward Mothering; Remembering Galeano
At the Radical Imagination Festival, Ardath Whynacht asked attendees to consider what trauma-informed social justice might look like; she also contested many radicals' emphasis on autonomy. Andrea...
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