The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement

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This book brings together a collection of social justice scholars and activists who take Foucault's concept of discipline and punishment to explain how prisons are constructed in society from nursing homes to zoos. This book expands the concept of prison to include any institution that dominates, oppresses, and controls. Criminologists and others, who have been concerned with reforming or dismantling the criminal justice system, have mostly avoided to look at larger carceral structures in society. In this book, for example, scholars and activists question the way patriarchy has incapacitated women and imagine the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities. In a time when popular sentiment critiques the dominant role of the elites (the "one percenters"), the state's role in policing dissenting voices, school children, LGBTQ persons, people of color, and American Indian Nations, needs to be investigated. A prison, as defined in this book, is an institution or system that oppresses and does not allow freedom for a particular group. Within this definition, we include the imprisonment of nonhuman animals and plants, which are too often overlooked. THE END OF PRISONS: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement CONTENTS EDITORIAL FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: Imprisoning the Ninety-Nine Percent ONE The Rise of the Terrorization of Dissent TWO Rethinking the “School to Prison Pipeline” THREE Criminalization of Culture and the Rise of Dissent FOUR Imprisoning Foreign Nationals FIVE Reservations as Prisons SIX The Tension between Abolition and Reform SEVEN Caging Sex Offenders EIGHT Queer (In)equalities: Imprisoning LGBTQ People NINE Imprisoning Nature TEN Control and Incarceration of Human and Non-Human Beings ELEVEN Patriarchal Ideologies and Women’s Domestication TWELVE Thoughts from an Elder Abolitionist THIRTEEN An Ubuntu Ethic of Punishment WORKS CITED ABOUT THE AUTHORS NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX VIBS