Coal, Cages, Crisis : : The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia /

Coal, Cages, Crisis : : The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia / / Judah Schept.

How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communitiesAs the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with ce...

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VerfasserIn:
Schept, Judah,
MitwirkendeR:
Ryerson, Sylvia,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 39 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Capturing Appalachia
  • Part I Extraction and Disposal
  • 1. “This Is a Place for Trash”: Mountaintop Removal, Waste, and Prisons
  • 2. Wars, Laws, Landscapes: Producing the Carceral Conjuncture
  • Part II Profit and Order
  • 3. “What a Magnificent Field for Capitalists!”: Convict Labor, Carceral Growth, and Craft Tourism
  • 4. The Company Town: Remaking Social Order in the Coalfields
  • Part III. Carceral Social Reproduction
  • 5. Planning the Prison: Development, Revenue, and Ideology
  • 6. “To Bring a Future and Hope to Our Children”: Renovating Education, Identity, and Work
  • 7. The Plot of Abolition: Solidarity Politics across Scale, Strategy, and Prison Walls
  • Conclusion: The Long, Violent History and the Struggle for the Future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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