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Prison capital : mass incarceration and struggles for abolition democracy in Louisiana / Lydia Pelot-Hobbs.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelot-Hobbs, Lydia, author.
- Series:
- Justice, power, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass incarceration--Louisiana--History--20th century.
- Mass incarceration.
- Mass incarceration--Louisiana--History--21st century.
- Mass incarceration--Government policy--Louisiana.
- Racism against Black people--Louisiana.
- Racism against Black people.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Louisiana.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Capitalism--Political aspects--Louisiana.
- Capitalism.
- Prison abolition movements--Louisiana.
- Prison abolition movements.
- Louisiana--Politics and government.
- Louisiana.
- Capitalism--Political aspects.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Path to Open
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana's carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding 'crime.' However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits, to Angola activists challenging life without parole, to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina, to LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana's carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Decentralizing Angola: liberal interventions, overcrowding crises, and the making of a new era
- Consolidating and contesting law-and-order austerity
- Jailing Louisiana: sheriffs, policing, and growing opposition
- Carceral disasters: Hurricane Katrina, organized abandonment, and racial state violence
- Reconstructing the New Orleans criminal legal system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
- To walk down the street without fear: curbing criminalization and demanding life in the New Orleans tourism economy
- Making freedom.
- Notes:
- Title from online title page (viewed on January 16, 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469675107
- 1469675102
- 9781469675114
- 1469675110
- OCLC:
- 1375548404
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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