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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration works from the premise
that if the law establishes and maintains both its practical and
symbolic authority on the basis of its monopoly on legally
sanctioned violence and the suffering threatened and delivered by
such violence, then we cannot know the full human cost or concrete
moral status of any legal state without human witness to the depth
and manner of suffering meted out by such violence. The prison
writer stands in the position to offer such witness. The prison
writer knows the law's violence in the flesh. For every other
writer, reflection upon the degree and manner of suffering meted
out under legal sanction-that is, reflection upon the full human
cost of the contemporary legal order-is necessarily speculative. In
close readings of first-person witness from prisons in the U.S.,
Ireland, and Africa, Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration
discovers literary tropes that chart at once local, national, and
transnational conditions of carceral experience-the extant
conditions of legalized suffering. In exhibiting the labor required
to move from institutionalized abjection to the minimum
requirements of rights-bearing personhood, this witness offers the
sole credible vision of the possubility of a post carceral
understanding of freedom.
A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have
experienced it Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the
American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped
within it. Drawing from the writings collected in the American
Prison Writing Archive, Doran Larson deftly illustrates how mass
incarceration does less to contain any harm perpetrated by
convicted people than to spread and perpetuate harm among their
families and communities. Inside Knowledge makes a powerful
argument that America’s prisons not only degrade and debilitate
their wards but also defeat the prison’s cardinal missions of
rehabilitation, containment, deterrence, and even meaningful
retribution. If prisons are places where convicted people are sent
to learn a lesson, then imprisoned people are the ones who know
just what American prisons actually teach. At once profound and
devastating, Inside Knowledge is an invaluable resource for those
interested in addressing mass incarceration in America.
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