Challenging the prison-industrial complex activism, arts, and educational alternatives (University of Illinois Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction - Empowerment or incarceration? : reclaiming hope and justice from a punishing democracy - Stephen John Hartnett -- - Building an abolition democracy : or, the fight against public fear, private benefits, and prison expansion - Erica R. Meiners -- - Militarizing the police : Officer Jon Burge, torture, and war in the "urban jungle" - Julilly Kohler-Hausmann -- - Killing democracy : or, how the drug war drives the prison-industrial complex - Daniel Mark Larson -- - Teaching you to love fear : television news and racial stereotypes in a punishing democracy - Travis L. Dixon -- - Diagnosing the schools-to-prisons pipeline : maximum security, minimum learning - Rose Braz and Myesha Williams -- - "A piece of the reply" : the prison creative arts project and practicing resistance - Buzz Alexander -- - Each one reach one : playwriting and community activism as redemption and prevention - Robin Sohnen -- - Fostering cultures of achievement in urban schools : how to work toward the abolition of the schools-to-prisons pipeline - Garrett Albert Duncan -- - Humanizing education behind bars : Shakespeare and the theater of empowerment - Jonathan Shailor -- - Breaking down the walls : inside-out learning and the pedagogy of transformation - Lori Pompa -- - Appendix - Prisoner art and the work of community building - Janie Paul