...The Boundaries of Mercy<subtitle>Clemency, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration</subtitle> In 2012 Mississippi governor Haley Barbour created a firestorm when he granted clemency to over two hundred people. In response to bipartisan outrage, Barbour explained that he was acting on a “Mississippi...

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... This chapter critically maps policies to confront mass incarceration in the city of Rio de Janeiro, focusing on measures to prevent and combat torture. Prison systems in Rio de Janeiro are commonly described as spaces for human rights violations. The chapter explores the struggle between...

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...-Lebanese community and archival research in its institutions in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, since 2009. performative arabness ethnicity community kaleidoscopic identities immigrant This chapter critically maps policies to confront mass incarceration in the city of Rio de Janeiro, focusing...

... that helped to fuel mass incarceration, prisons were temporarily releasing people onto the streets in the name of public safety. After explaining the development of furloughs as a tool of “community corrections,” chapter 8 explores the case of Massachusetts, where prison organizing and a reformist...

.... At the very moment when “crime in the streets” emerged as an elastic mantra that helped to fuel mass incarceration, prisons were temporarily releasing people onto the streets in the name of public safety. After explaining the development of furloughs as a tool of “community corrections,” chapter 8 explores...

... Chapter 4 reveals that criminality is not ascribed on migrants only upon reaching the US-Mexico border. From the US making of transnational gangs, to the increase of mass incarceration in the region, and a wave of mysterious prison fires that are burning inmates alive, Central American artists...

... of immigration control during the era of Black emancipation, this chapter highlights the deep and allied inequities rooted in the rise of immigration control and mass incarceration. carcerality immigration abolition amnesty Gloria Anzaldúa explores the complexities of identity in a poetic...

... deportation advances settler colonialism. Settling requires evolving legal regimes to maintain territorial and social control over a space animated by Indigenous sovereignty. The chapter bridges critical migration studies and critical Indigenous studies to analyze contemporary mass displacement. I propose...

... of Cuban citizens to migrate to the United States. The mass exodus of Cubans had a profound impact on immigration policies and ultimately resulted in the criminalization and long-term incarceration of immigrants from the Caribbean. This chapter reveals how, for Black and Brown immigrants, the promise...