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- Title
Prisons as Laboratories of Antidemocracy.
- Authors
HASBROUCK, BRANDON
- Abstract
Prisons are woefully ineffective as tools to protect society from violence and exploitation, yet America's prison population exploded in the twentieth century. On the outside, this devastated Black communities, Black opportunities, Black economic power, and Black voting power. Yet a similarly insidious development came from inside prison walls: prison administrators honed antidemocratic techniques for constraining and oppressing incarcerated persons, techniques that would later be deployed against the ostensibly free population. Jeffrey Bellin's Mass Incarceration Nation provides a robust analysis of the ways state and federal policies have combined to create an explosion in the scope of American prisons in the late twentieth century. This Book Review explores how prisons have served as laboratories of antidemocracy to perfect tactics to suppress access to information, protest, and bodily autonomy.
- Subjects
PRISON administration; PRISON population; BLACK people; LEGAL status of prisoners; MASS Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons &; Jails &; How It Can Recover (Book)
- Publication
Yale Law Journal, 2024, Vol 133, Issue 6, p1966
- ISSN
0044-0094
- Publication type
Article