Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Carceral narratives and fictions. Poems: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "Pantoum for a Black man on a Greyhound Bus" and "Lost letter #27: John Peters, Boston-Gaol to Phillis Wheatley Peters, Boston, December 3, 1784"
  • Carceral trauma at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and maternity
  • Layered realities : prison writings and anti-terror laws in India
  • Seeing orange : mediatizing the prison empire
  • Emptied chairs and faceless inmates : a critical analysis of the Texas Prison Museum
  • Poems: Ravi Shankar, "Against innocence" and "Sunday school"
  • These stories will not be confined
  • Poem: Solmaz Sharif, "Reaching Guantánamo"
  • Part two: Carceral bodies and systems. Poem: Jeremy Eugene, "Space"
  • Cornered : day laborers, criminalization, and legal rituals of democracy in Texas
  • Resisting criminalization : principles, practicalities, and possibilities of alternative justices beyond the state
  • Going carceral : analyzing written and visual representations of prison yoga programs
  • Vacant refuge, unfinished resettlement : ambivalence among Syrian and Iraqi refugee women and children in Houston, Texas
  • Social control, punishment, and gender : silenced memories of Peruvian women in wartime
  • Bad girls of Pinjra Tod
  • Poem: Javier Zamora, "Citizenship".