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While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive jailing. Centering the political actions of people until now overlooked—jailed people, wardens, corrections officers, sheriffs, and the countless community members who battled over the functions and impact of jails—Newport shows how local, grassroots contestation shaped the rise of the carceral state.As ground zero for struggles over criminal justice reform, particularly in the latter half of the twentieth century, jails in Chicago and Cook County were models for jailers and advocates across the nation who aimed to redefine jails as institutions of benevolent transformation. From a slave sale on the jail steps to new jail buildings to electronic monitoring, from therapy to job training, these efforts further criminalized jailed people and diminished their capacity to organize for their civil rights. With prisoners as famous as Al Capone, Dick Gregory, and Harold Washington, and a place in culture ranging from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle to B. B. King’s Live in Cook County Jail, This Is My Jail places jails at the heart of twentieth-century urban life and politics.As a sweeping history of urban incarceration, This Is My Jail shows that jails are critical sites of urban inequality that sustain the racist actions of the police and judges and exacerbate the harms wrought by housing discrimination, segregated schools, and inaccessible health care. Structured by liberal anti-Blackness and legacies of violence, today’s jails reflect longstanding local commitments to the unfreedom of poor people of color.
Correctional personnel. --- Imprisonment --- Jails. --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- African American history. --- Black history. --- Chicago. --- Cook County. --- Joseph Lohman. --- Mayor Richard Daley. --- Progressive Era. --- Winston Moore. --- bail. --- commissioners. --- criminal justice. --- criminology. --- jail reform. --- law and order politics. --- law enforcement. --- local jails. --- mass incarceration. --- misdemeanor. --- prisoner rights. --- rehabilitation. --- sentences. --- sheriffs. --- twentieth century. --- urban history. --- wardens.
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From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home. In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistance-and how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A "smoking gun" book, Badges without Borders offers a new account of the War on Crime, "law and order" politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between foreign and domestic racial control.
Counterinsurgency --- Racial profiling in law enforcement --- Social control --- Militarization of police --- History --- United States. --- History. --- american empire. --- cold war. --- declassified national security. --- expose. --- foreign and domestic. --- global counterinsurgency. --- imperial power. --- intelligence materials. --- law and order politics. --- military. --- overseas. --- police leaders. --- police textbooks. --- police training. --- policing city streets. --- racial control. --- technical assistance. --- united states. --- war on crime. --- war.
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