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The prison industrial complex / by Sorensen, Lita,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is the prison industrial complex? What is the prison industrial complex? / Ozy Frantz ; Some people are getting rich off the prison industrial complex / Ray Downs ; America's prison industrial complex is modern-day slavery / Sezin Koehler ; Prison work programs are beneficial / Marilyn C. Moses and Cindy J. Smith, PhD ; Privatization isn't the problem. Too many are being incarcerated / Robby Soave -- How did we get here? The war on drugs was a disastrous policy / Betsy Pearl ; The war on drugs is not to blame for mass incarceration / Eli Hager and Bill Keller ; Prisons for profit is immoral / Aubrie Bosworth ; A 1994 crime bill destroyed lives / Thomas Frank -- What are the economic and social implications of the prison industrial complex? Under pressure from activists, big banks are divesting from private prisons / Mike Ludwig ; The intersection between race, mental illness, and incarceration must be closely analyzed / James Kilgore ; The school-to-prison pipeline has caused great harm to communities of color / Nicki Lisa Cole, PhD ; Private prison contractors profit from immigration enforcement / Livia Luan -- What is the future of the prison industrial complex? The First Step Act reflects a new criminal justice consensus / Michelle S. Phelps ; Formerly incarcerated leaders are paving the road for change / The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ; It's time to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline / Mary Ellen Flannery ; Our current prison system should be abolished / Red Sun in the Sky ; The Trump administration has created incentives for increased immigrant detention / Hauwa Ahmed -- For further discussion -- Organizations to contact."The United States boasts the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. Perhaps not coincidentally, mass incarceration has been a financial boon to the private prison industry. Privatization of prisons is seen by some as a solution to state governments' budget problems, but the mission of these for-profit companies is not necessarily aligned with the reform system. The diverse perspectives in this volume examine the history of private prisons in the United States, whether they are more concerned with rehabilitation or financial profit, and what impact they have on criminal justice laws and society at large"--
Subjects: Juvenile works.; Prison-industrial complex;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Go-between / by Brackmann, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)498647;
"Emily runs a successful bistro in Humboldt County, California, where she lives with her handsome boyfriend, Jeff, a volunteer firefighter. A lot of her best customers are in the cannabis business, but so what? It's true that the bistro was funded by drug money, and sure, firefighting isn't really Jeff's main job--that would be flying Humboldt's finest weed to out-of-state customers. And sure, he isn't really Emily's boyfriend, more like the guy she's stuck with by circumstance. Actually, his name isn't Jeff, it's Danny; and Emily's real name is Michelle Mason, although no one can ever know that. She's on the run from her past--which has just caught up with her in its ugliest form: Gary, an ex-CIA and black ops agent who got her and Danny into this whole mess, and who Michelle should have killed when she had the chance. When Gary shows up at Michelle's restaurant the same night Danny is arrested by the DEA during what should have been a routine flight, Michelle knows they've been set up. Danny's life is on the line: he's dangling bait in a maximum-security Houston jail, prey to Gary and whatever shadowy powers Gary works for. Gary will help Michelle out--get Danny out of this jam--if she'll just do him one little favor: take a job in Houston working for the figurehead of a multimillion-dollar anti-crime nonprofit. But Michelle knows whatever she's getting into isn't what it seems. All she can do is hope she figures out what Gary's real endgame is before she--or someone close to her--pays the ultimate price. Lisa Brackmann has written a chilling and thought-provoking thriller that reveals the unsavory link between marijuana legalization and the big-money politics of the United States' private prison industry"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Marijuana industry; Prison industries; Prison-industrial complex;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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An abolitionist's handbook : 12 steps to changing yourself and the world [sound recording] / by Cullors, Patrisse,1983-author.; Blake, Ariel,narrator.;
Read by Ariel Blake.Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives, and real-life anecdotes from Cullors, the book offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Alternatives to imprisonment.; Prisons; Prison abolition movements.; Prison-industrial complex.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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An abolitionist's handbook : 12 steps to changing yourself and the world / by Cullors, Patrisse,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Courageous conversations -- Respond vs. react -- Nothing is fixed -- Say yes to imagination -- Forgive actively, not passively -- Allow yourself to feel -- Commit to not harming or abusing others -- Practice accountability -- Embrace non-reformist reform -- Build community -- Value interpersonal relationships -- Fight the U.S. State rather than make it stronger."In AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision. In AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK readers will learn how to: - have courageous conversations - move away from reaction and towards response - take care of oneself while fighting for others - turn inter-community conflict into a transformative action - expand one's imagination, think creatively, and find the courage to experiment - make justice joyful - practice active forgiveness - make space for difficult feelings and honor mental health - practice non-harm and cultivate compassion - organize local and national governments to work towards abolition - move away from cancel culture AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK is for those who are looking to reimagine a world where communities are treated with dignity, care and respect. It gives us permission to move away from cancel culture and into visioning change and healing"--
Subjects: Alternatives to imprisonment.; Prisons; Prison abolition movements.; Prison-industrial complex.;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 18
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Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons / by Kaepernick, Colin,1987-editor.(CARDINAL)609349;
Abolition for the People brings together thirty essays representing a diversity of voices―political prisoners, grassroots organizers, scholars, and relatives of those killed by the anti-Black terrorism of policing and prisons. This collection presents readers with a moral choice: "Will you continue to be actively complicit in the perpetuation of these systems," Kaepernick asks in his introduction, "or will you take action to dismantle them for the benefit of a just future?"
Subjects: Prisons; Prison-industrial complex; Police; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Police.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons / by Kaepernick, Colin,1987-editor.(CARDINAL)609349; Davis, Angela Y.(Angela Yvonne),1944-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)129182; Browne, Simone,1973-Feds are watching.; Neal, Mark Anthony.Myth of the good cop.; Laymon, Kiese.My son was executed by an ideal.; Nopper, Tamara K.Truth about "Officer Friendly."; Schrader, Stuart,1978-SWAT's paramilitary fever dream.; Lewis, Talila A.Disability justice is an essential part of abolishing police & ending incarceration.; Meiners, Erica R.Snaps!; Nopper, Tamara K.Schools as carceral spaces.; Ross, Kihana Miraya.How abolition makes schools safer.; Crenshaw, Kimberlé.We must center Black women.; Gali, Morning Star.Ongoing incarceration of California's Indigenous Peoples.; Spade, Dean,1977-Queer & trans liberation requires abolition.; Kilgore, James William,1947-Challenging e-carceration.; Jiménez Moreta, Cristina.Fight to melt ICE.; Farrow, Kenyon.Hidden pandemic.; Shoatz, Russell Maroon,1943-2020.My father deserves to be free.; Loggins, Ameer Hasan.We're all living in a future created by slavery.; Purnell, Derecka.Reforms are the master's tools.; Hamilton, Derrick.No justice, no freedom.; Rodriguez, Dylan.Police reform as counterinsurgency.; Bass, Bree Newsome.Putting a black face on police agendas.; Benjamin, Ruha.New Jim Code.; Kelley, Robin D. G.Change from the roots.; Abu-Jamal, Mumia.Casting off the shadows of slavery.; Murakawa, Naomi.Three traps of police reform.; Wun, Connie.Survivors at the forefront of the abolitionist movement.; Peterson, Marlon.Who is being healed?; Ritchie, Andrea J.Ending the war on black women.; Lumumba, Rukia.We can dismantle the system at the polls, too.; Berger, Dan.What is & what could be.; Kaba, Mariame.Journey continues.;
The former NFL star turned social activist presents 30 essays from political prisoners, grassroots organizers and scholars such as Angela Davis and Dereck Purnell that focus on the police and incarceration abolition movement.Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-284).Editors' preface: A journey to safer futures / Colin Kaepernick, Connie Wun, and Christopher Petrella -- Foreword: Believe in new possibilities / Angela Y. Davis -- Introduction: A future worth building / Colin Kaepernick -- The Feds are watching: a history of resisting anti-black surveillance / Simone Browne -- The myth of the good cop: pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars--and black folks into criminals / Mark Anthony Neal -- My son was executed by an ideal: a conversation with Gwendolyn Woods / as told to Kiese Laymon -- The truth about "Officer Friendly" / Tamara K. Nopper -- SWAT's paramilitary fever dream: when police play soldier, everybody loses / Stuart Schrader -- Disability justice is an essential part of abolishing police & ending incarceration / Talila A. Lewis -- Snaps!: collective (queer) abolition organizing created this moment / Erica R. Meiners -- Schools as carceral spaces / Tamara K. Nopper -- How abolition makes schools safer: funneling our children from classrooms to cages ends now / Kihana Miraya Ross -- We must center black women: Breonna Taylor and bearing witness to black women's expendability / Kimberlé Crenshaw -- Stolen freedom: the ongoing incarceration of California's indigenous peoples / Morning Star Gali -- Queer & trans liberation requires abolition / Dean Spade -- Challenging e-carceration: abolition means no digital prisons / James Kilgore -- The carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper -- The fight to melt ICE: why we're fighting for a world without ICE / Cristina Jiménez Moreta and Cynthia Garcia -- The hidden pandemic: prisons are a public health crisis--and the cure is right in front of Us / Kenyon Farrow -- The long grip of mass incarceration / Tamara K. Nopper -- My father deserves to be free: a son's fight for his father's freedom / Russell "Maroon" Shoatz and Russell Shoatz III -- We're all living in a future created by slavery / Ameer Hasan Loggins -- Reforms are the master's tools: the system is built for power, not justice / Derecka Purnell -- No justice, no freedom: criminal justice reform cost me 21 years of my life / Derrick Hamilton -- police reform as counterinsurgency: how reformist approaches to police Violence expand police power and legitimate the next phase of domestic warfare / Dylan Rodríguez -- The extent of carceral control / Tamara K. Nopper -- Three traps of police reform / Naomi Murakawa -- Putting a black face on police agendas: black cops don't make policing any less anti-black / Bree Newsome Bass -- The new Jim Code: the shiny, high-tech wolf in sheep's clothing / Ruha Benjamin -- Change from the roots: what abolition looks like, from the Panthers to the people / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Casting off the shadows of slavery: lessons from the first abolition movement / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Survivors at the forefront of the abolitionist movement / Connie Wun -- Who is being healed?: creating solutions is about answering questions prisons never asked / Marlon Peterson -- Ending the war on black women: building a world where Breonna Taylor could live / Andrea J. Ritchie -- Bankrolling the carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper -- We can dismantle the system at the polls, too / Rukia Lumumba -- What is & what could be: the policies of abolition / Dan Berger and David Stein -- The journey continues: so you're thinking about becoming an abolitionist / Mariame Kaba.
Subjects: Alternatives to imprisonment; Prison abolition movements; Civil rights movements; Prison-industrial complex;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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Chain-gang all-stars [large print] / by Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,author.(CARDINAL)803678;
"Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the ancient gladiator games, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo, and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences."--Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Large print books.; Women prisoners; Prison-industrial complex; African American prisoners; Private prisons; Lesbians; Contests; Women gladiators; Lesbians.; Lesbian fiction.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 7
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NC Prisons photo collection [kit] by North Carolina Museum of Art,compiler.(CARDINAL)150432; North Carolina Museum of Art.Art Reference Library,compiler.(CARDINAL)861636;
Collection consists of images of various correctional facilities in North Carolina with a considerable amount of material centering Polk Prison Farm, later Polk Youth Center, and Caledonia Prison Farm. Found within the collection are official photographs from the N.C. Department of Corrections; images captured by NY based photographer A.F. Sozio; photos of Polk at various stages ranging from the WWI military encampment Camp Polk to images of Polk Youth Center in 1973. The collection was discovered in the holdings of the North Carolina Museum of Art, and compiled by the North Carolina Museum of Art Library.In 1920, the North Carolina State Prison (early name for the N.C. Department of Corrections) acquired a 2,600 acre WWI tank training site and transitioned it into a prison farming facility, Polk Prison Farm. Polk Prison Farm would become Polk Youth Center in December 1963. Young offenders incarcerated there could learn skills that would help them become electricians, carpenters, bricklayers, or mechanics. Despite the removal of Polk's older population the citizens of Raleigh and the communities closest to Polk expressed displeasure at the prison's existence. In 1973 the Council of the State transferred 100 acres of Polk land to the Art Museum Building Commission for a new museum. A new site with the name Polk Youth Center opened in 1997 in Butner, Granville County. February 7, 2001, 45 acres of Polk land were transferred to the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to be used by the North Carolina Museum of Art. The only remaining indicator of the land's time as a correctional institute is the smokestack that is now the NCMA Wecome Center.
Subjects: Convict labor; Imprisonment; Juvenile corrections.; Prison-industrial complex; Polk Correctional Institution (Butner, N.C.); Prison educators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wrong lanes have right turns : a pardoned man's escape from the school-to-prison pipeline and what we can do to dismantle it / by Phillips, Michael(Pastor),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.My soul looks back and wonders -- The predator and the prey -- How are the children? -- Bitter seed -- Walking without purpose -- Crash -- Short money -- Tragedy interrupted -- Redemption and re-entry -- No success without struggle -- Right turns."The unforgettable true story of one man's escape from the school-to-prison pipeline, how he reinvented himself as a pastor and education reform advocate, and what his journey can teach us about turning the collateral damage in the lives of our youth into collateral hope"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Phillips, Michael (Pastor); African American clergy; Christian biography; Ex-convicts; African American boys; Racism in education; Prison-industrial complex; Educational change;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The five people you'll meet in prison : a memoir of addiction, mania & hope / by Stickney, Brandon M.,author.(CARDINAL)636020;
Includes bibliographical references.Part "Oz," "Shawshank Redemption," and "Orange Is the New Black," this true, warts-and-all, David vs. Goliath tale is about a journalist/addict/alcoholic whose five prison-mates ready him for the outside world, while taking on the prison industrial complex of 2018.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Stickney, Brandon M.; Prisoners; Journalists; Prisons; Imprisonment;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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