The long term : resisting life sentences, working toward freedom / edited by Alice Kim, Erica R. Meiners, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Beth E. Richie, and Sarah Ross.
Kim, Alice, editor.; Meiners, Erica R., editor.; Petty, Audrey, editor.; Evans, Jill, 1946- editor.; Richie, Beth, editor.; Ross, Sarah (Art teacher), editor.
2018
HV9471 .L66 2018eb
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Title The long term : resisting life sentences, working toward freedom / edited by Alice Kim, Erica R. Meiners, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Beth E. Richie, and Sarah Ross.
ISBN 9781608469000 (electronic book)
160846900X (electronic book)
9781608468997
1608468992
Published Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2018.
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 386 pages) : illustrations
Call Number HV9471 .L66 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 365.973
Summary "Long Term Offenders, or LTOs, is the state's term for those it condemns to effective death by imprisonment. Often serving sentences of sixty to eighty years, LTOs bear the brunt of the bipartisan embrace of mass incarceration heralded by the "tough on crime" agenda of the 1990s and 2000s. Like the rest of the United States' prison population--the world's highest per capita--they are disproportionately poor and non-white. The Long Term brings these often silenced voices to light, offering a powerful indictment of the prison-industrial complex from activists, scholars, and those directly surviving and resisting these sentences. In showing the devastation caused by a draconian prison system, the essays also highlight the humanity and courage of the people most affected. This striking collection of essays gives voice to people both inside and outside prison struggling for liberation, dismantles claims that the "tough on crime" agenda and LTO sentencing keep us safe, and reveals the white supremacism and patriarchy upon which the prison system rests. In its place, the contributors propose a range of far-reaching reforms and raise the even more radical demand of abolition, drawing on the experience of campaigns in the United States and beyond"--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Kim, Alice, editor.
Meiners, Erica R., editor.
Petty, Audrey, editor.
Evans, Jill, 1946- editor.
Richie, Beth, editor.
Ross, Sarah (Art teacher), editor.
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Section 1: We Are Alive
Survival Kits
Section 2: Long-Term Sentencing, Illusions of Safety, and the Pursuit of Toughness
Section 3: For Feminist Freedoms: Confronting Misogyny and White Supremacy through Abolition Politics and Anticapitalist Practices
Section 4: Building Resistance for the Long Term
Playlists and Liner Notes
Section 5: Litanies for Survival

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