Incarceration
Incarceration
Weeks 3 and 4 focus on the facts behind incarceration such as the demographics of who is mist incarcerated and how prisoners are a slave force for larger corporations.
Week 1 and 2: Foundational
Week 5 and 6: Media and Incarceration
Week 3 Reading:
Bauer, Shane. Chapter 2 In "Private Prisons Are Shrouded in Secrecy.
Bruce Western and Becky Pettit. "Incarceration & Social Inequality."
Mumia Abu Jamal. Democracy Now. By Amy Goodman.
Liz Appel. "White Supremacy in the Movement Against the Prison-Industrial Complex."
Week 4 Readings:
Barbara Boward. “Time to Begin” in Instead of Prisons: An Abolitionist Handbook
Laresha Brown. Take a Picture, Tell a Story.
Michel Foucault. The New York Times. By Roger-Pol Droit.
Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn. “Why Prisoners Across The Country Have Gone On Strike”.