Prison capital [electronic resource] : mass incarceration and struggles for abolition democracy in Louisiana / Lydia Pelot-Hobbs.
2023
HV9475.L2
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Title
Prison capital [electronic resource] : mass incarceration and struggles for abolition democracy in Louisiana / Lydia Pelot-Hobbs.
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ISBN
9781469679723 (electronic bk.)
1469679728 (electronic bk.)
9781469675121 (electronic bk.)
1469675129 (electronic bk.)
9781469675107
1469675102
9781469675114
1469675110
1469679728 (electronic bk.)
9781469675121 (electronic bk.)
1469675129 (electronic bk.)
9781469675107
1469675102
9781469675114
1469675110
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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HV9475.L2
Dewey Decimal Classification
365/.9763
Summary
Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana's carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding "crime." However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits and Angola activists challenging life without parole to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina and LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana's carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms.
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Justice, power, and politics.
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Table of Contents
Decentralizing Angola: liberal interventions, overcrowding crises, and the making of a new era
Consolidating and contesting law-and-order austerity
Jailing Louisiana: sheriffs, policing, and growing opposition
Carceral disasters: Hurricane Katrina, organized abandonment, and racial state violence
Reconstructing the New Orleans criminal legal system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
To walk down the street without fear: curbing criminalization and demanding life in the New Orleans tourism economy
Making freedom.
Consolidating and contesting law-and-order austerity
Jailing Louisiana: sheriffs, policing, and growing opposition
Carceral disasters: Hurricane Katrina, organized abandonment, and racial state violence
Reconstructing the New Orleans criminal legal system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
To walk down the street without fear: curbing criminalization and demanding life in the New Orleans tourism economy
Making freedom.