The United States of America is in possession of the largest
prison population in the world, with 2.3 million people currently
behind bars. This number is predominantly and disproportionately
made up of communities of colour and poverty. Between 1987 and
2007, the U.S. prison population tripled; the direct result of
various tough on crime public policies. Organizers and scholars use
the term prison industrial complex (PIC) to name the structure that
encompasses the expanding economic and political contexts of the
detention and corrections industry in the USA. The PIC is a network
that sutures capital, communities and the State to a permanent
punishment economy. The term the PIC aims to capture the range of
material and ideological forces that shape the growth of detention:
the political and lobbying power of the corrections officers
unions, the framing of prisons and jails as a growth industry in
the context of deindustrialization, the production and sales of
technology and security required to maintain and expand the state
of incarceration, and the naturalization of isolation as a logical
response to harm.
Education and Incarceration highlights the significance of
centering agency and autonomy, and documents scholars who work to
be accountable to justice movements and communities, not simply to
academic disciplines or to research. Additionally, as emerging
scholars committed to challenging the PIC, these authors struggle
to build multi-layered analytic and material tools for resistance
within and beyond the walls of schools, jails and prisons. This
book provides snapshots of practices in motion: activist scholars
working to engage, to be accountable to families, communities and
larger justice movements, and to build abolition democracies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Race
Ethnicity and Education."
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