... mass incarceration combating torture prison system public security policy abolitionism ...

... 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...

..., in this case the Comando Vermelho, respond to the situation. The chapter also discusses the nature of the Brazilian prison system in general, and the recent increase in the size of the prisoner population due to the country’s “war on drugs.” Comando Vermelho prison conditions organized crime...

... the reader that the eventual abolition of the US prison system is not merely future-oriented and aspirational but, based on historical evidence, absolutely inevitable. It concludes with the words of an incarcerated prison abolitionist and freedom fighter. socialist impulse interdependent life...

... an entrenched feature of the Massachusetts prison system, even for those convicted of first-degree murder. community corrections risk Massachusetts furloughs ...

... prisoners, the resulting prison overcrowding forced a crisis for which various forms of clemency were urged and deployed as a reasonable response. For a brief moment, gubernatorial clemency became a check on the growth of the prison system. But white conservatives promoted fears that desegregation would...

... connections with the outside world. By the 1950s, penological reformers perceived the fluidity of southern prisons as a feature to emulate. While Mississippi’s penal system was regarded by outsiders as backward and brutal, the “open” plantation prison came to be regarded as an antidote to the “cell-block...

...The Politics of Sex Historians and sociologists have mapped the racial dimensions of the emergent culture of control, with its bloated prison system and far-flung surveillance techniques. This chapter draws out the sexual dimension, emphasizing how the figure of the imperiled child stands...

... of the prison system. But white conservatives promoted fears that desegregation would lead to racial violence, and they appealed to stereotypes of black criminality to pass punitive legislation and abrogate decades of tradition. The foreclosure of clemency led to low morale among prisoners and acts...

... Didier Fassin proposes a broad discussion regarding the public afterlife of ethnography, which is based on his experience of research conducted in South Africa and France on topics as different as the AIDS epidemic, urban policing, and the prison system, in contexts as diverse as classrooms...

... attempts to extend Lawrence to prisons and prisoners in multifarious ways. This chapters asks why, and then how, prisons, as arms of the state, continue to criminalize consensual sexual activity between prisoners. In addition, it addresses the particular effects of such a system on some of the most...

... Historians and sociologists have mapped the racial dimensions of the emergent culture of control, with its bloated prison system and far-flung surveillance techniques. This chapter draws out the sexual dimension, emphasizing how the figure of the imperiled child stands at center stage...

...Domination Part 1 centers prisons as the current system of confinement used to maintain social control through the hierarchization of humans for labor. It extends the idea that confinement is the engine driving the region’s social, political, and economic systems while teasing apart how...

... the fluidity of southern prisons as a feature to emulate. While Mississippi’s penal system was regarded by outsiders as backward and brutal, the “open” plantation prison came to be regarded as an antidote to the “cell-block psychosis” of urban, fortress-like facilities. Thus, penologists around the country...

... 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 the prison and civil society–based anti-torture organizations, specifically the State Mechanism for Preventing and Combating...

... systems rigidly and dangerously enforce gender binaries in ways that make trans lives impossible. jail domestic violence transgender trans ID poverty prison ...

... the mental health system in the United States and how it has been largely relegated to jails and prisons. Finally, it is suggested that collective tragedies such as mass murder may be viewed as chances to take a more substantive, meaningful look at how we view psychological suffering and violence...

... and doctrine to thwart attempts to extend Lawrence to prisons and prisoners in multifarious ways. This chapters asks why, and then how, prisons, as arms of the state, continue to criminalize consensual sexual activity between prisoners. In addition, it addresses the particular effects of such a system...

...To-the-Side Part 3 moves through conversations with people whose efforts and activities unfold in places that are blurred to the side, beyond the gaze of politicians or police, tucked away from noisy fights in the streets. If the region’s order is an outcome of different systems...