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Coal, Cages, Crisis - The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (Paperback)
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Coal, Cages, Crisis - The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (Paperback)
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How prisons became economic development strategies for rural
Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of
mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as
a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have
been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the
country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth.
Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons
alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it
would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In
Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this
stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail
expansion and rising incarceration rates in America's hinterlands.
Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept
traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of
its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation
occurring in the coalfields, where prisons are often built on top
of old coalmines, including mountaintop removal sites, and built
into community planning approaches to crises of unemployment,
population loss, and declining revenues. By linking prison growth
to other sites in this landscape-coal mines, coal waste, landfills,
and incinerators-Schept shows that the prison boom has less to do
with crime and punishment and much more with the overall
extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that
characterize dominant development strategies for the region. Schept
argues that the future of this area now hangs in the balance,
detailing recent efforts to oppose its carceral growth. Coal,
Cages, Crisis offers invaluable insight into the complex dynamics
of mass incarceration that continue to shape Appalachia and the
broader United States.
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