Challenging the prison-industrial complex : activism, arts, and educational alternatives /
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Empowerment or incarceration? : reclaiming hope and justice from a punishing democracy / Stephen John Hartnett
- Building an abolition democracy : or, the fight against public fear, private benefits, and prison expansion / Erica R. Meiners
- Poem : "Another day in the Champaign County Jail" / Dennis Mansker
- Militarizing the police : Officer Jon Burge, torture, and war in the "urban jungle" / Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
- Poem : "Gotta be careful where ya plant ya feet" / Marvin Mays
- Killing democracy : or, how the drug war drives the prison-industrial complex / Daniel Mark Larson
- Poem : "Another day" / Erika Baro
- Teaching you to love fear : television news and racial stereotypes in a punishing democracy / Travis L. Dixon
- Poem : "In search of salvation" / William T. Smith
- Diagnosing the schools-to-prisons pipeline : maximum security, minimum learning / Rose Braz and Myesha Williams
- "A piece of the reply" : the prison creative arts project and practicing resistance / Buzz Alexander
- Poem : "The poet's corner" / George Hall
- Each one reach one : playwriting and community activism as redemption and prevention / Robin Sohnen
- Poem : "Devil talks" / Robert "Chicago" McCollum
- Fostering cultures of achievement in urban schools : how to work toward the abolition of the schools-to-prisons pipeline / Garrett Albert Duncan
- Poem : "January 3, 2009" / Nicole Monahan
- Humanizing education behind bars : Shakespeare and the theater of empowerment / Jonathan Shailor
- Poem : "Anger" / Kenneth Sean Kelly
- Breaking down the walls : inside-out learning and the pedagogy of transformation / Lori Pompa
- Appendix: Prisoner art and the work of community building / Janie Paul.