From Mass Incarceration to Mass Coercion
December 1, 2019
Mark Jay is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author, with Philip Conklin, of the forthcoming book A… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Incarceration
I am wrestling with despair
November 1, 2017
Every day is worse than the one beforea killing of all that was legislatedto be kind, helpful, healthy for allliving creatures, prisoners of this earth.The meanness of it gets me,… READ MORE
From Incarceration to Decarceration: The Need to Abolish Prisons
November 1, 2015
Aviva Stahl is a Brooklyn-based independent journalist who focuses on prison issues. She primarily writes about solitary confinement and the communities that experience the greatest marginalization on the inside, including… READ MORE
The Plight of the U.S. Working Class
January 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE
Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Hardening of Everyday Life
May 1, 2013
Henry A. Giroux is a social critic and educator, and the author of many books. He currently holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster… READ MORE
Neoliberalism, Imperialism, and the Militarization of Urban Spaces
October 1, 2012
Matthew Thomas Clement is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Oregon. His article “The Town-Country Antithesis and the Environment” was published in September 2011 in Organization &… READ MORE
First, They Came for the Sex Offenders
February 1, 2012
Judith Levine is the author of four books, including Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Women From Sex, which won the LA Times Book Prize. She also writes a… READ MORE
2. Lessons from the New Corporate Schooling
July 1, 2011
As the articles in this section indicate, the new corporate schooling in the United States combines many of the worst aspects of capitalist schooling in a period of economic stagnation,… READ MORE
Militarism and Education Normal
July 1, 2011
Erica R. Meiners (e-meiners [at] neiu.edu) teaches courses in gender and women’s studies at the College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University, and works toward prison abolition. She is the… READ MORE
Reflections on the Racial Web of Discipline
July 1, 2011
Crystal T. Laura (ctlaura2 [at] gmail.com) researches, teaches, and organizes in Chicago to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline for youth everywhere. Her first book, Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the… READ MORE