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ISSUE OUT OF PRINT — DIGITAL COPY AVAILABLE
Rose Braz et al., eds.
This special issue of Social Justice, edited by Critical Resistance, focuses on prison abolition as a goal and theme. The issue is broadly divided into system analyses and articles centering on organizing for change, that is, reports of struggles against the system and toward the realization of new visions. The first part deals with the politics of prisons and crime, as well as the interplay between immigration, militarization of the border, and the social control of Native populations. The second part examines the elements of public safety and well-being. It also includes discussions on the role of conferences in building movements and the prospects for prison abolition today. The final section offers resources in the form of selected videos, films, and pertinent web sites.
We are pleased to offer a combination of theoretically cogent articles and activist-inspired proposals for moving forward. It is a timely contribution considering public recognition of the bankruptcy of the War on Drugs as a central feature of the national crime policy, the movement away from the use of the death penalty, and the clear need to reappraise the prison-building boom in a period of constantly declining crime rates. The question is how such illogical and destructive policies could be sustained for so long; organizing is the answer, the path to its undoing.
“Congratulations on a fabulous issue.”–Julie Falk, Southland Prison News
“Great issue!”–Forrest Curo, Street Light, a monthly street paper on poverty issues in San Diego
Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the abstract and buy the pdf):
Rose Braz et al. (Guest Editors), Issue Overview
Critical Resistance Guest Editors, The History of Critical Resistance
Ed Mead, Reflections on Crime and Class
Paul Wright, The Cultural Commodification of Prisons
Mumia Abu-Jamal, The Industry of Fear
Marilyn Buck, Prisons, Social Control, and Political Prisoners
Garrett Albert Duncan, Urban Pedagogies and the Celling of Adolescents of Color
Christian Parenti, Crime As Social Control
M. Grayson L. Taylor, with Terry Kupers, Prison Psychosis
Jose Palafox, Opening Up Borderland Studies: A Review of U.S.-Mexico Border Militarization Discourse
Michael Welch, The Role of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Prison-Industrial Complex
René Francisco Poitevin, Political Surveillance, State Repression, and Class Resistance: The Puerto Rican Experience
Dian Million, Policing the Rez: Keeping No Peace in Indian Country
Margo Okazawa-Rey and Gwyn Kirk, Maximum Security
Julia Sudbury, Transatlantic Visions: Resisting the Globalization of Mass Incarceration
Cynthia Chandler and Carol Kingery, Yell Real Loud: HIV-Positive Women Prisoners Challenge Constructions of Justice
Karlene Faith, Reflections on Inside/Out Organizing
Ellen Barry, Women Prisoners on the Cutting Edge: Development of the Activist Women Prisoners’ Rights Movement
Marge Frantz, with Cassandra Shaylor, American Radical Traditions in Conference Organizing
Bo Brown, Terry Kupers, Andy Smith, and Julia Sudbury, as interviewed by Dylan Rodriguez and Nancy Stoller, Reflections on Critical Resistance
Kim Gilmore, Slavery and Prison — Understanding the Connections
Camille E.S.A. Acey, This Is an Illogical Statement: Dangerous Trends in Anti-Prison Activism
Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez, The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation
Critical Resistance Guest Editors, Selected Documentaries
Critical Resistance Guest Editors, Recommended Websites
