Jack Norton is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana. Judah Schept is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion.
Foreword
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Introduction: The Jail Is Everywhere
- Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept
1. A Quiet Jail Boom
- Jasmine Heiss
2. The Long Fight Against Jail Expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- An Interview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails
3. County Jails and the Immigrant Dragnet
- Silky Shah
4. Decarcerating Sacramento: Confronting Jail Expansion in California’s
Capital
- Liz Blum
5. "Not One More Dollar Goes into This Jail": Becoming Abolitionists in
Upstate New York
- Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier
6. "You Start with Where You Are and with the People Who Are Around You":
Organizing Against Jails Across Tennessee
- An Interview with Dawn Harrington and Gicola Lane of Free Hearts
7. Carceral Communities: Local Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex
in the Mountain South
- Amelia Kirby
8. Communities Over Cages—the (Ongoing) Campaign to Close the Atlanta City
Jail
- Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware
9. Federal Courts, FEMA Dollars, and Local Elections in the Struggle
Against Phase III in New Orleans
- An Interview with Lexi Peterson-Burge of Orleans Parish Prison Reform
Coalition
10. Real Solutions: Organizing for Alternatives to a Big New Jail in a
Small Republican County
- Sarah Westover and Matt Witt
11. Lessons from the No New Jails Network and the New York City Struggle
Against Carceral Feminism
- An Interview with Mon Mohapatra of the No New Jails Network
Conclusion: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration
- Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept
Acknowledgments
Appendix: "The County Jail"
- Stanley Boone
