{"product_id":"the-jail-is-everywhere-fighting-the-new-geography-of-mass-incarceration-paperback","title":"The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Norton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLydia Pelot-Hobbs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJudah Schept\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jail Is Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Norton \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLydia Pelot-Hobbs\u003c\/b\u003e is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American \u0026amp; Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of\u003ci\u003e Carceral Crisis: Punitive State Power, Racial Capitalism, and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudah Schept \u003c\/b\u003eis a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCoal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764833583392,"sku":"9781804291313","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/40c70d4177f450a947f0bd5b7787ef26.webp?v=1780256035","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-jail-is-everywhere-fighting-the-new-geography-of-mass-incarceration-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}