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This is a story of a U.S. Midwest college town’s movements to build bigger and better jails. It is a story of losing resistance to building a jail in 1986 to broadening resistance to a newer and bigger “justice campus,” which has stalled. It emerges that the biggest contributor to current jail population is non-bailable revocation of suspended sentences on technicalities that do not in themselves...
During the first intifada uprising (1987–1993), thousands of Palestinians were arrested annually, and mass incarceration affected as many as 100,000 families. Relying on several recent ethnographies, and other published research including some of my own, this article describes the contests over Palestinian prison ontology as organized by (a) the jailers, (b) the prisoners, (c) the families of prisoners,...
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