Challenging the prison-industrial complex : activism, arts, and educational alternatives /

Challenging the prison-industrial complex : activism, arts, and educational alternatives / edited by Stephen John Hartnett. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource



Building an abolition democracy; or, the fight against public fear, private benefits, and prison expansion / Poem. Another day in the Champaign County Jail / Militarizing the police : Officer Jon Burge, torture, and war in the "urban jungle" / Poem. Gotta be careful where ya plant ya feet / Killing democracy; or, how the drug war drives the prison-industrial complex / Poem. Another day / Teaching you to love fear : television news and racial stereotypes in a punishing democracy / Poem. In search of salvation / Diagnosing the schools-to-prisons pipeline : maximum security, minimum learning / A piece of the reply : the Prison Creative Arts Project and practicing resistance / Poem. The poet's corner / Each one reach one : playwriting and community activism as redemption and prevention / Poem. Devil talks / Fostering cultures of achievement in urban schools : how to work toward the abolition of the schools-to-prisons pipeline / Poem. January 3, 2009 / Humanizing education behind bars : Shakespeare and the theater of empowerment / Poem. Anger / Breaking down the walls : inside-out learning and the pedagogy of transformation / Erica R. Meiners -- Dennis Mansker -- Julilly Kohler-Hausmann -- Marvin Mays -- Daniel Mark Larson -- Erika Baro -- Travis L. Dixon -- William T. Smith -- Rose Braz and Myesha Williams -- Buzz Alexander -- George Hall -- Robin Sohnen -- Robert "Chicago" McCollum -- Garrett Albert Duncan -- Nicole Monahan -- Jonathan Shailor -- Kenneth Sean Kelly -- Lori Pompa.

Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who have worked within and against the prison system join forces here to call attention to the debilitating effects of a punishment-driven society and offer clear-eyed alternatives, emphasizing working directly with prisoners and their communities. Stephen John Hartnett is an associate professor and chair of communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror and Executing Democracy, Volume One: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1683-1807. --Book Jacket.



9780252090165 9781282959590 9786612959592 6612959592

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Prison-industrial complex--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.
Prisons--United States.


Electronic Books.

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