Creating a World Without Prisons: Culture and the Carceral State
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Published:February 2024
Part 3 examines the pervasive role of the carceral system in the United States and how artists and organizers are disrupting systems of violence and creating liberatory models of care and accountability. Contributions include discussions on disability justice as a critical component of abolitionism; community-based ways to cultivate collective safety and freedom; art making while incarcerated; intercultural and cross-movement solidarity; memory, detention, and immigrant rights; disrupting the inside/outside paradigm of incarceration; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on death row inmates; asserting humanity in the face of solitary confinement; historical and present impacts of incarceration on Native communities; Kanaka Maoli cultural approaches to accountability; performance art as a catalyst for dialogue generation; and art as a healing component of reentry.