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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"prison industrial complex"”.
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FOOD AND PERFORMANCE IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
… the United States. The growing epidemic of the prison industrial complex creates a critical situation; performance studies offers significant ways to address the increasing problems of incarceration. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the intersection of academic literature connecting …
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The Time of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition and Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community
… Angela Davis’s multifaceted critique of the prison industrial complex – focusing primarily on the tenets of racism, classism, and capitalism – and take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing her call for prison abolition by way of Giorgio Agamben’s radical adjustments to traditional …
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Menstrual Inequality in Women's Correctional Facilities
… causes of this systematic inequality within the prison industrial complex in the United States. The content of this work will focus on how menstruating bodies face stigma, discrimination, and punitive treatment within correctional institutions throughout the United States. Based on the lack of …
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Has Neoliberalism Affected American Civil Liberties? Examining the Criminal Justice System and the Welfare State
… Secondly, by evaluating the growth in the prison industrial complex. Third, by asking questions of growing social insecurity from an increasingly privatized social safety net. This thesis explored four hypotheses, each one finding support. The overall argument is that the economic sphere …
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Sequencing the Body: Prisons and the Spatial Imaginary
… sequences of occupied and interactive spaces in prison institutions, in an attempt to explore and understand the nature of these spaces and their relationship to the body. Six spaces - exterior, recreation, visitation, the cell block, general population cells, and segregation cells - represent a …
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Existing But Not Living: Neo-Civil Death And The Carceral State
<p>In 2010, the United States prison releases exceeded prison admission for the first time since the Bureau of Justice Statistics began collecting jurisdictional data in 1977. Prisoner reentry--the transition from prison to community--has grown exponentially in the 21st century. While individuals …
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Visit the Imprisoned: A Heuristic Inquiry into the Experiences of Catholic Detention Ministry Volunteers
… have led me to wonder then, “Why does the prison system still exist to harm people despite the array of research condemning its practices?” Through this pondering, I critiqued the larger systems at play: the prison-industrial complex, the sociopolitical rhetoric of “tough on crime,” and the …
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Privileged Resistance: Prisoners of Conscience in the United States, 1980-2013
… dissertation tells the story of modern anti-war prisoners of conscience in the United States-people who are incarcerated for six months or more as a result of nonviolent resistance. It explores how they intentionally use and learn about their own privilege in solidarity actions that land them in …
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Original Gangsters: Genre, Crime, and the Violences of Settler Democracy
… mass incarceration, immigrant detention, and the prison-industrial complex are drawing greater attention than ever, my investigation provides fresh insights into the textual and structural nuances of these systems.</p>
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A Jail Is Not Social Housing: making new grounds for Chinatown
… the neo-feudal rental system and racialized prison industrial complex. It exists to extend exploitation by selling the dream of homeownership, yet only makes room to support a select few. This thesis is interested in the limited means of shelter that are encapsulated within the architectural …
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Bodies of Knowledge: An Anatomy and Kinesiology of the American Prison Nation, 'Human'-making, and Twenty-first-century Techno-gods
… title="">[1]</a> Beginning with the American Prison Industrial Complex and what sociologist Beth E. Richie conceptualizes as the “prison nation,” I will show the ‘human’ as a contingent and composite status appearing along a spectrum of Flesh, Body, and ‘Human’ (Flesh-Body-‘Human’) statuses …
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Slavery and the origins of Louisiana’s prison industry, 1803-1861
… development, which identifies the origins of the prison industrial complex in the decades following the abolition of slavery in the United States. Scholars have already contended that the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude ‘except as a …
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Resisting internalized oppression: Black women's perceptions of incarceration
… are the fastest growing population in American prisons (Roberts,2012). Black women's politicized racial consciousness becomes important as similarities are uncovered between chattel slavery (and other pre-civil rights anti-black racist institutions like Jim Crow segregation) and contemporary …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
… trap working-class women who use drugs in complex webs of surveillance and punishment concealed by talk of decarceration, racial justice, and recovery. Traveling across sites of state violence, I show that medical and criminological, therapeutic and punitive approaches to the management of …
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Beyond hope: Rhetorics of mobility, possibility, and literacy
… study of my work at a men’s medium-high security prison in Illinois, where I conducted research and served as the instructor of an upper-level writing course, “Writing for a Change,” in the spring of 2009. Entitled “Doing Time with Literacy Narratives,” this chapter explores the complex ways in …
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Incentives to Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement in Prison Labor and the Privatization of the Prison System
… yet it accounts for 25% of the world’s prisoners. Not only does the United States mercilessly incarcerate its own citizens, it disproportionately incarcerates African American and Latino men. This fact on its own is disturbing; however, when it is coupled with the fact that corporations …