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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Section 1: We Are Alive: -- Prison is not just a place / by Raul Dorado -- Larger than life: building a movement across prison walls to abolish death by incarceration / by Felix Rosado, David Lee, and Layne Mullett -- It do what it do (Me & Homer talk poetry) / by Krista Franklin -- On leaving prison: a reflection on entering and existing communities / by Monica Cosby -- Long-term separation / by Efrain Alcaraz -- Time after time: for transgender women, trauma and confinement persist after sentences end / by Toshio Meronek, with Cookie Bivens -- A living chance / Adrienne Skye Roberts interviews Ellen Richardson, Kelly Savage, Amber Bray, Rae Harris, Barbara Chavez, Judith Barnett, Mary Elizabeth Stroder, Sacey Dyer, Natalie DeMola, and Laverne DeJohnette -- "Be a panther when you get to Angola" / a conversation between Albert Woodfox and Beth E. Richie -- Survival Kits |
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Section 2: Long-Term Sentencing, Illusions of Safety, and the Pursuit of Toughness: -- Long division / by Tara Betts -- Lock'em up and throw away the key: the historical roots of harsh sentencing and mass incarceration / by Jame Kilgore -- Rethinking truth-in-sentencing in Illinois / by Joseph Dole -- A kinder, gentler system? A look across the border -- Long-term sentences in Canada / by Meenakshi Mannoe -- Football numbers / by Phil Hartsfield -- Two terms: the effects of long-term sentencing / by Benny "Don Juan" Rio -- Coming out of the digital closet / by David Booth -- Concentrating punishment: long-term consequences for disadvantages places / by Daniel Cooper and Ryan Lugalia-Hollon -- Suspension / by Kristiana Rae Colón -- "Mass incarceration" as Misnomer / by Dylan Rodríguez -- On being human / by Kathy Boudin |
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Section 3: For Feminist Freedoms: Confronting Misogyny and White Supremacy through Abolition Politics and Anticapitalist Practices -- "Do we want justice, or Do we want punishment?" / a conversation about carceral feminism between Rachel Caïdor, Shira Hassan, Deana Lewis, and Beth E. Richie -- Longest long term: colonization and criminalization of First Nations' land and bodies / by Boneta-Marie Mabo -- Against Carceral Feminism / by Victoria Law -- Circles of grief, circles of healing / by Mariama Kaba -- Fund black futures as an abolitionist demand / Janaé E. Bonsu -- Meditations on abolitionist practices, reformist moments / with Rachel Herzing and Erica R. Meiners -- Ten strategies for cultivating community accountability / by Ann Russo |
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Section 4: Building Resistance for the Long Term -- By any means necessary: reflections on Malcolm X's birthday- what is what's necessary is awe-inspiring, unconditional, militant love? / by adrienne maree brown -- Loving inward: the importance of intimacy / by Jermond "JFresh" Davis -- "Making the We as big as possible" / an interview with Damon Williams by Alice Kim -- Schooling and the prison-industrial complex / by People's Education Movement Chicago: Erica R. Davila, Mathilda de Dios, Valentina Gamboa-Turner, Angel Pantoja, Isaura B. Pulido, Ananka Shony, and David O. Stovall -- Uprooting the punitive practices of New York's Parole Board / by Mujahid Farid -- Ban the box and the impact of organizing / by Formerly Incarcerated people / by Linda Evans -- #CLOSErikers / dr by Janos Marton -- A mother confronts Chicago police torture / by Mary L. Johnson -- Pelican Bay hunter strike: building unity behind bars / by Claude Marks and Isaac Ontiveros -- Lil' Paralegal Who Could and the Birth of a New Law / by Patrick Pusley -- Playlists and Liner Notes |
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Section 5: Litanies for Survival -- Whole Foods, Black Wall Street, and my 13-inch flat-screen TV / by Andre Patterson -- Life on the registry / by Tammy Bond -- Contradictory notes on a question: Harrison Seuga on what it means to be free, stay free, and to free others / by Roger Viet Chung -- "Strugglin', strivin', and survivin'" / an interview with Damien, Carlthel, and Elizabeth Brent by Sarah Ross -- Beyond survivor's guilt: responding to sibling's incarceration / Maya Schenwar -- Breaking walls: lessons from Chicago / by Alice Kim -- Affirmation / by Eva L. Ewing -- Formerly incarcerated, convicted people and families movement platform / by FICPFM |
| Summary |
"Long Term Offenders, or LTOs, is the state's term for those it condemns to effective death by imprisonment. Often serving sentences of sixty to eighty years, LTOs bear the brunt of the bipartisan embrace of mass incarceration heralded by the "tough on crime" agenda of the 1990s and 2000s. Like the rest of the United States' prison population--the world's highest per capita--they are disproportionately poor and non-white. The Long Term brings these often silenced voices to light, offering a powerful indictment of the prison-industrial complex from activists, scholars, and those directly surviving and resisting these sentences. In showing the devastation caused by a draconian prison system, the essays also highlight the humanity and courage of the people most affected. This striking collection of essays gives voice to people both inside and outside prison struggling for liberation, dismantles claims that the "tough on crime" agenda and LTO sentencing keep us safe, and reveals the white supremacism and patriarchy upon which the prison system rests. In its place, the contributors propose a range of far-reaching reforms and raise the even more radical demand of abolition, drawing on the experience of campaigns in the United States and beyond"--Publisher's description. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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United States. |
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration. |
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects. |
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Imprisonment. |
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Prisons -- United States.
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Prisons. |
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation. |
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Alternatives to imprisonment -- United States.
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Alternatives to imprisonment. |
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Essays.
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Essays.
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Electronic books.
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Ritchie, Beth, editor.
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Ross, Sarah, editor.
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Kim, Alice, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781608468997 1608468992 (OCoLC)1007747641 |
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9781608469000 9781608468997 (e-book) |
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160846900X |
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1608468992 |
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