Black Women, Police Violence, and Gentrification
On September 15, six months after Louisville Metro Police Department officers killed Breonna Taylor in…
Browsing: Carceral state
Histories of Capital Punishment in the United States
In late July, Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume…
Protest and Punishment in Rural North Carolina
Longtime inhabitants of Benson and those passing through could not miss the prominent billboard at…
Still Bringing the State Back In Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration has been a project of state building. Accordingly, when I teach my students…
Toward an Environmental History of American Prisons
On a warm night in June 1845, two inmates recently escaped from the newly opened…
Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s: Part Three, Organizing Past, Present, Future
Roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony…
Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s: Part Two, Hearing Prisoners’ Voices
Roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony…
Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s: Part One, Building Movements
Roundtable discussion with Dan Berger, Alan Eladio Gómez, Garrett Felber, Toussaint Losier, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tony…
The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson teaches U.S. political history and is chair of American Studies at the University…
The Suburban Imperatives of America’s War on Drugs
Matthew D. Lassiter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is…