Repairing the Breach: Faith-Based Community Organizing to Dismantle Mass Incarceration
Religions, 2019 Public awareness of the injustices of mass incarceration has grown significantly over the last decade. Many people have learned about mass incarceration in church contexts through book groups, study campaigns, and denominational statements.
Amy Levad
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"How America Disguises its Violence: Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the Need for Resistant Imagination" [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines how a delusive social imaginary of criminal-justice has underpinned contemporary U.S. mass incarceration and encouraged widespread indifference to its violence.
Stone-Mediatore, Shari
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 The United States has experienced a 4-fold increase in jail and prison populations over the last 40 years, disproportionately burdening African American and Hispanic/Latinx communities.
Alexandra L. Hernandez +6 more
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At the Nexus of Neoliberalism, Mass Incarceration, and Scientific Racism: the Conflation of Blackness with Risk in the 21st century [PDF]
, 2020 This paper examines how the systems of power of neoliberalism, scientific racism, and mass incarceration intersect to construct and uphold the image of “black criminality” and “blackness as a risk” to society.
Sailors, Olivia C
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SSM: Population Health, 2019 A collateral consequence of mass incarceration in the United States is its negative effects on population health. Using data from 2015, this study examines the relationship between incarceration rates and population health for a national sample of U.S ...
Robert R. Weidner, Jennifer Schultz
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Expanding carceral geographies: challenging mass incarceration and creating a "community orientation" towards juvenile delinquency [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2014 Increasingly, governments are adopting alternative strategies to mass incarceration and drawing on the rhetoric of community to create softer and less restrictive sanctions.
E. Brown
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Evangelist of Incarceration? Billy Graham as Symbol for the Religious Problem of Mass Incarceration
Black Theology Papers Project, 2019 This paper looks at Billy Graham as a symbol for a platonized Christianity that gives birth to and maintains the social problem of mass incarceration.
Bryson White
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Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration [PDF]
, 2018 Three widely discussed explanations of the punitive carceral state are racism, harsh drug laws, and prosecutorial overreach. These three narratives, however, only partially explain how our correctional system expanded to its current overcrowded state ...
Appleman, Laura I
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Palliative care & the injustice of mass incarceration
Witness, 2019 Due to the criminalization of marginalized people, many markers of social disadvantage are overrepresented among prisoners. With an aging population, end of life in prison thus becomes a social justice issue that nurses must contend with, engaging with ...
Helen Hudson +2 more
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Planning beyond Mass Incarceration [PDF]
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2020 The policing and penal systems play an oversized role in shaping the built environment and budgets of cities, alongside the lives of urban residents. Law enforcement systems are also deeply inequitable with poor residents, and communities of color disproportionately harmed by the violences of the system.
Simpson, Sheryl-Ann +2 more
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