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The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails are now the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. As jails grow, they transform the region around them. Whole towns and small cities see health care provision and employment opportunities become subordinate to carceral concerns.

If jails are everywhere, resistance is too. Campaigns against new or expanded jails have emerged in large and mid-sized cities and in dozens of small towns and rural counties across the US. While there is some coordination and communication between those involved in these struggles, they tend to be isolated from each other and from broader movements. The Jail Is Everywhere brings together an incredible range of knowledge and experience from jail fights across the country. It maps this new terrain, foregrounding the hard-forged analyses of anti-jail organizers themselves as they take us through campaigns that, while appearing local, are at the new center of the carceral state.

With a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. See more
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  • Weight: 200g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jan 2024
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781804291313

About Jack NortonJudah ScheptLydia Pelot-Hobbs

Jack Norton is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky and author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana.Judah Schept is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal Cages Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss Jail Growth and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion.

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