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"This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration and the boundaries of domestic law"--

Imprisonment --- Race discrimination --- Detention of persons --- History --- States --- United States --- Southern States --- West (U.S.) --- Emigration and immigration --- Race relations --- History. --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Criminal procedure --- Law and legislation --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- School-to-prison pipeline

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In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. This book highlights untold but important truths about the histories of labour, civil rights, and politics in the US.

Prisoners --- Convict labor --- African American prisoners. --- Mexican American prisoners. --- Civil rights --- History --- Violence against --- Southern States --- Race relations