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Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility. This work takes shape against a backdrop of disturbing trends: The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black man has a greater chance of going to prison than to college. The United States is the only Western democracy to retain the death penalty, even after decades of scholarship, statistics, and even legal decisions have depicted a deeply flawed system structured by racism and class oppression. Motivated by a conviction that mass incarceration and state execution are among the most important ethical and political problems of our time, the contributors to this volume come together from a diverse range of backgrounds to analyze, critique, and envision alternatives to the injustices of the U.S. prison system, with recourse to deconstruction, phenomenology, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, and disability studies. They engage with the hyper-incarceration of people of color, the incomplete abolition of slavery, the exploitation of prisoners as workers and as “raw material” for the prison industrial complex, the intensive confinement of prisoners in supermax units, and the complexities of capital punishment in an age of abolition. The resulting collection contributes to a growing intellectual and political resistance to the apparent inevitability of incarceration and state execution as responses to crime and to social inequalities. It addresses both philosophers and activists who seek intellectual resources to contest the injustices of punishment in the United States.
Capital punishment --- Imprisonment --- Punishment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Abolition. --- Convict Lease System. --- Critical Prison Studies. --- Death Penalty. --- Mass Incarceration. --- Punishment. --- Racism. --- Resistance. --- Slavery. --- Supermax. --- capital punishment.
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How prisons around the world shape the social lives of their inhabitantsPrison Life offers a fresh appreciation of how people in prison organize their lives, drawing on case studies from Africa, Europe and the US. The book describes how order is maintained, how power is exercised, how days are spent, and how meaning is found in a variety of environments that all have the same function – incarceration – but discharge it very differently. It is based on an unusually diverse range of sources including photographs, drawings, court cases, official reports, memoirs, and site visits.Ian O’Donnell contrasts the soul-destroying isolation of the federal supermax in Florence, Colorado with the crowded conviviality of an Ethiopian prison where men and women cook their own meals, seek opportunities to generate an income, elect a leadership team, and live according to a code of conduct that they devised and enforce. He explores life on wings controlled by the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland’s H Blocks, where men who saw the actions that led to their incarceration as politically-motivated moved as one, in perpetual defiance of the authorities. He shows how prisoners in Texas took to the courts to overthrow a regime that allowed their routine subjugation by violent men known as building tenders, who had been selected by staff to supervise and discipline their peers.In each case study O’Donnell presents the life story of a man who was molded by, and in return molded, the institution that held him. This ensures that his reflections on law and policy as well as on theory and practice never lose sight of the human angle. Imprisonment is about pain after all, and pain is personal.
Prisoners --- Prisons --- ADX. --- Chalew Gebino. --- David Ruiz. --- Eastham Unit. --- H Blocks. --- Integration. --- Irish Republican Army. --- Isir Bet. --- Jack Powers. --- Laurence McKeown. --- SAMs. --- autonomy. --- building tenders. --- carceral geometry. --- charter. --- code. --- compliance. --- conditioning. --- constitutions. --- control unit. --- dormitories. --- legitimacy. --- order keepers. --- order. --- porosity. --- race. --- regulation. --- security. --- sensemaking. --- slave. --- solitary confinement. --- supermax. --- ‘society of captives’.
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Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis, "Dock" Barker-these were just a few of the legendary "public enemies" for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of "The Rock." Alcatraz is the only book with authoritative answers to questions that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically with the harsh regime? What provoked the protests and strikes? How did security flaws lead to the sensational escape attempts? And what happened when these "habitual, incorrigible" convicts were finally released? By shining a light on the most famous prison in the world, Ward also raises timely questions about today's supermax prisons.
Prisons --- History. --- United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California. --- Alcatraz Island (Calif.) --- 20th century american crime. --- 20th century american history. --- al capone. --- alcatraz. --- alvin karpis. --- american government. --- convicts. --- crime. --- dock barker. --- escape attempts. --- fbi. --- federal bureau of prisons. --- federal government. --- federal parole records. --- gangsters. --- george kelly. --- infamous criminals. --- inmates. --- machine gun kelly. --- outlaws. --- penal policy. --- penitentiary. --- prison administrators. --- prison guards. --- prison. --- public enemy. --- resistance. --- security. --- supermax prison. --- the rock. --- worst of the worst.
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Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, Dayan considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and she explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, she also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, The Law Is a White Dog illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.
Law --- Civil rights --- Torture --- Slavery --- Persons (Law) --- Law of persons --- Personality (Law) --- Status (Law) --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Social aspects. --- Law and legislation --- American prison system. --- Constitution. --- Hecuba. --- Herman Melville. --- Judeo-Christian. --- animal treatment. --- animals. --- appellate cases. --- banishment. --- chattels. --- civil death. --- civil existence. --- civil ghost. --- degradation. --- deprivation. --- dignity. --- dogs. --- domesticated animals. --- felon. --- felons. --- genocide. --- ghosts. --- human chattels. --- human empathy. --- human rights. --- illegal practices. --- incarceration. --- inferiority. --- juridical diminution. --- larceny. --- lawful repression. --- legal boundaries. --- legal protections. --- legal rituals. --- legality. --- modern law. --- modernity. --- negative personhood. --- personal identity. --- personal rights. --- post-Magna Carta. --- property. --- punishment. --- punishments. --- religious fictions. --- restitution. --- servitude. --- slave law. --- slave. --- slavery. --- slaves. --- social death. --- social marginalization. --- spectral emanations. --- supermax penitentiary. --- taxonomies. --- torture. --- untamed animals. --- war on terror. --- wills.
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