The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781804291313)

A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL

Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. While the growing movement against incarceration and policing has called to reform or abolish prisons, jails have often gone unnoticed, or in some cases seen as a "better" alternative to prisons."

Yet jails, in recent decades, have been the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. Jails are widely used for immigrant detention by ICE and the U.S. Marshals and as a place to offload people that prisons can't hold. As jails grow, they transform the region around them, and whole towns and small cities see health care, mental health care, substance abuse, and employment opportunities taken over by carceral concerns.

If jails are everywhere, resistance to jails is too. The recent jail boom has sparked a wealth of local activist struggles to resist and close jails all across the United States, from rural counties to major cities.

The Jail Is Everywhere brings these disparate voices together, with contributions from activists, scholars, and expert journalists describing the effects of this quiet jail boom, mapping the growth of the carceral state, and sharing strategies from recent fights against jail construction to strengthen struggles against jailing everywhere.

With a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Author: Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Judah Schept
ISBN-10: 1804291315
ISBN-13: 9781804291313
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 11/27/2023
Foreword 12/27/2023