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Challenging the prison-industrial complex : activism, arts, and educational alternatives / edited by Stephen John Hartnett.

Title
Challenging the prison-industrial complex : activism, arts, and educational alternatives / edited by Stephen John Hartnett.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
Hartnett, Stephen J.
Description
x, 291 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"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.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Imprisonment > United States
  • Prison-industrial complex > United States
  • Prisons > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Empowerment or incarceration? : reclaiming hope and justice from a punishing democracy / Stephen John Hartnett -- Building an abolition democracy : or, the fight against public fear, private benefits, and prison expansion / Erica R. Meiners -- Militarizing the police : Officer Jon Burge, torture, and war in the "urban jungle" / Julilly Kohler-Hausmann -- Killing democracy : or, how the drug war drives the prison-industrial complex / Daniel Mark Larson -- Teaching you to love fear : television news and racial stereotypes in a punishing democracy / Travis L. Dixon -- Diagnosing the schools-to-prisons pipeline : maximum security, minimum learning / Rose Braz and Myesha Williams -- "A piece of the reply" : the prison creative arts project and practicing resistance / Buzz Alexander -- Each one reach one : playwriting and community activism as redemption and prevention / Robin Sohnen -- Fostering cultures of achievement in urban schools : how to work toward the abolition of the schools-to-prisons pipeline / Garrett Albert Duncan -- Humanizing education behind bars : Shakespeare and the theater of empowerment / Jonathan Shailor -- Breaking down the walls : inside-out learning and the pedagogy of transformation / Lori Pompa -- Appendix : Prisoner art and the work of community building / Janie Paul.
ISBN
  • 9780252035821 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252035828 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252077708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252077709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010024101