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Title The jail is everywhere : fighting the new geography of mass incarceration / edited by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept ; foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Publisher London : Verso, 2024.
Description xii, 192 pages : 1 map ; 21 cm
book jacket
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 Mt Lebanon New Nonfiction  365.5 Jai     AVAILABLE

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Summary "Contributions from activists, scholars, and journalists describing the effects of the quiet jail boom in the US and sharing strategies from recent fights against jail construction"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword / Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- Introduction: The jail is everywhere / Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept -- A quiet jail boom / Jasmine Heiss -- The long fight against jail expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois / an inteview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails -- County jails and the immigrant dragnet / Silky Shah -- Decarcerating Sacramento : confronting jail expansion in California's capital / Liz Blum -- "Not one more dollar goes into this jail" : becoming abolitionists in Upstate New York / Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier -- "You start with where you are and with the people who are around you" : organizing against jails across Tennessee / an interview with Dawn Harrington and Gicola Lane of Free Hearts -- Carceral communities : local resistance to the prison-industrial complex in the mountain South / Amelia Kirby -- Communities over cages : the (ongoing) campaign to close the Atlanta City Jail / Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware -- Federal courts, FEMA dollars, and local elections in the struggle against Phase III in New Orleans / an interview with Lexi Peterson-Burge of Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition -- Real solutions : organizing for alternatives to a big new jail in a small Republican county / Sarah Westover and Matt Witt -- Lessens from the No New Jails Network and the New York City struggle against carceral feminism / an interview with Mon Mohapatra of the No New Jails network -- Conclusion: Fighting the new geography of mass incarceration / Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot Hobbs, and Judah Schept -- Appendix: "The county jail" / Stanley Boone.
Subject Jails -- United States -- Design and construction.
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Addt'l Author Norton, Jack (Editor of The jail is everywhere), editor.
Pelot-Hobbs, Lydia, editor.
Schept, Judah Nathan, editor.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 1950- writer of foreword.
Alt Title Fighting the new geography of mass incarceration
ISBN 9781804291313 (paperback)
1804291315 (paperback)