Tag: prisons

The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America

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Author: Naomi Murakawa Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014 The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the 20th century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white Continue Reading →

Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial transition in post-dictatorship Latin America by Susana Draper

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During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the post dictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of Continue Reading →