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The Resource Prison industrial complex for beginners, by James Braxton Peterson ; illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

Prison industrial complex for beginners, by James Braxton Peterson ; illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

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"Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States. Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system have marked its emergence as a 'complex' in a manner comparable to how President Eisenhower described the Military Industrial Complex. Like its institutional 'cousin,' the Prison Industrial Complex features a critical combination of political ideology, far-reaching federal policy, and the neo-liberal directive to privatize institutions traditionally within the purview of the government. The result is that corporations have capital incentives to capture and contain human bodies. The Prison Industrial Complex relies on the 'law and order' ideology fomented by President Nixon and developed at least partially in response to the unrest generated through the Civil Rights Movement. It is (and has been) enhanced and emboldened via the US 'war on drugs,' a slate of policies that by any account have failed to do anything except normalize the warehousing of nonviolent substance abusers in jails and prisons that serve more as criminal training centers then as redemptive spaces for citizens who might re-enter society successfully."--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 144 pages
Contents
  • Chapter 5.
  • Youth, immigration, and solitary confinement
  • Chapter 6.
  • Recidivism and real reform
  • Epilogue.
  • From The new Jim Crow to Jimmy's back to The last Jimmy
  • Chapter 1.
  • The origins of complexes
  • Chapter 2.
  • Race and the persistence of law-and-order ideology
  • Chapter 3.
  • The failed war(s) on drugs
  • Chapter 4.
  • Private profits and private prisons
Isbn
9781939994318
Instance
Label
Prison industrial complex for beginners
Title
Prison industrial complex for beginners
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by James Braxton Peterson ; illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson
Creator
Contributor
Author
Illustrator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States. Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system have marked its emergence as a 'complex' in a manner comparable to how President Eisenhower described the Military Industrial Complex. Like its institutional 'cousin,' the Prison Industrial Complex features a critical combination of political ideology, far-reaching federal policy, and the neo-liberal directive to privatize institutions traditionally within the purview of the government. The result is that corporations have capital incentives to capture and contain human bodies. The Prison Industrial Complex relies on the 'law and order' ideology fomented by President Nixon and developed at least partially in response to the unrest generated through the Civil Rights Movement. It is (and has been) enhanced and emboldened via the US 'war on drugs,' a slate of policies that by any account have failed to do anything except normalize the warehousing of nonviolent substance abusers in jails and prisons that serve more as criminal training centers then as redemptive spaces for citizens who might re-enter society successfully."--Provided by publisher
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BTCTA
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1971-
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Peterson, James Braxton
Dewey number
365/.973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1970-
  • 1972-
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  • Jennings, John
  • Robinson, Stacey
  • Dyson, Michael Eric
Series statement
A For beginners documentary comic book
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  • Prisons
  • Prisoners
  • African American prisoners
  • Criminals
  • Criminal justice, Administration of
  • Discrimination in criminal justice administration
  • United States
  • Race relations
  • African American prisoners
  • Criminal justice, Administration of
  • Criminals
  • Discrimination in criminal justice administration
  • Prisoners
  • Prisons
  • United States
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Prison industrial complex for beginners, by James Braxton Peterson ; illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142)
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Chapter 5.
  • Youth, immigration, and solitary confinement
  • Chapter 6.
  • Recidivism and real reform
  • Epilogue.
  • From The new Jim Crow to Jimmy's back to The last Jimmy
  • Chapter 1.
  • The origins of complexes
  • Chapter 2.
  • Race and the persistence of law-and-order ideology
  • Chapter 3.
  • The failed war(s) on drugs
  • Chapter 4.
  • Private profits and private prisons
Control code
ocn907195421
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 144 pages
Isbn
9781939994318
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
Prison industrial complex for beginners, by James Braxton Peterson ; illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Chapter 5.
  • Youth, immigration, and solitary confinement
  • Chapter 6.
  • Recidivism and real reform
  • Epilogue.
  • From The new Jim Crow to Jimmy's back to The last Jimmy
  • Chapter 1.
  • The origins of complexes
  • Chapter 2.
  • Race and the persistence of law-and-order ideology
  • Chapter 3.
  • The failed war(s) on drugs
  • Chapter 4.
  • Private profits and private prisons
Control code
ocn907195421
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 144 pages
Isbn
9781939994318
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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