Books+ Search Results
The long term : resisting life sentences, working toward freedom
Title
The long term : resisting life sentences, working toward freedom / edited by Alice Kim [and five others].
ISBN
9781608468997
1608468992
Publication
Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018.
Physical Description
ix, 386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Summary
"Long Term Offenders, or LTOs, is the state's term for those it condemns to effective death by imprisonment. Often serving sentences of sixty to eighty years, LTOs bear the brunt of the bipartisan embrace of mass incarceration heralded by the "tough on crime" agenda of the 1990s and 2000s. Like the rest of the United States' prison population--the world's highest per capita--they are disproportionately poor and non-white. The Long Term brings these often silenced voices to light, offering a powerful indictment of the prison-industrial complex from activists, scholars, and those directly surviving and resisting these sentences. In showing the devastation caused by a draconian prison system, the essays also highlight the humanity and courage of the people most affected. This striking collection of essays gives voice to people both inside and outside prison struggling for liberation, dismantles claims that the "tough on crime" agenda and LTO sentencing keep us safe, and reveals the white supremacism and patriarchy upon which the prison system rests. In its place, the contributors propose a range of far-reaching reforms and raise the even more radical demand of abolition, drawing on the experience of campaigns in the United States and beyond"--Publisher's description.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Section 1: We Are Alive:
Prison is not just a place / by Raul Dorado
Larger than life: building a movement across prison walls to abolish death by incarceration / by Felix Rosado, David Lee, and Layne Mullett
It do what it do (Me & Homer talk poetry) / by Krista Franklin
On leaving prison: a reflection on entering and existing communities / by Monica Cosby
Long-term separation / by Efrain Alcaraz
Time after time: for transgender women, trauma and confinement persist after sentences end / by Toshio Meronek, with Cookie Bivens
A living chance / Adrienne Skye Roberts interviews Ellen Richardson, Kelly Savage, Amber Bray, Rae Harris, Barbara Chavez, Judith Barnett, Mary Elizabeth Stroder, Sacey Dyer, Natalie DeMola, and Laverne DeJohnette
"Be a panther when you get to Angola" / a conversation between Albert Woodfox and Beth E. Richie
Survival Kits.
Section 2: Long-Term Sentencing, Illusions of Safety, and the Pursuit of Toughness:
Long division / by Tara Betts
Lock'em up and throw away the key: the historical roots of harsh sentencing and mass incarceration / by Jame Kilgore
Rethinking truth-in-sentencing in Illinois / by Joseph Dole
A kinder, gentler system? A look across the border
Long-term sentences in Canada / by Meenakshi Mannoe
Football numbers / by Phil Hartsfield
Two terms: the effects of long-term sentencing / by Benny "Don Juan" Rio
Coming out of the digital closet / by David Booth
Concentrating punishment: long-term consequences for disadvantages places / by Daniel Cooper and Ryan Lugalia-Hollon
Suspension / by Kristiana Rae Colón
"Mass incarceration" as Misnomer / by Dylan Rodríguez
On being human / by Kathy Boudin
Section 3: For Feminist Freedoms: Confronting Misogyny and White Supremacy through Abolition Politics and Anticapitalist Practices
"Do we want justice, or Do we want punishment?" / a conversation about carceral feminism between Rachel Caïdor, Shira Hassan, Deana Lewis, and Beth E. Richie
The longest long term: colonization and criminalization of First Nations' land and bodies / by Boneta-Marie Mabo
Against Carceral Feminism / by Victoria Law
Circles of grief, circles of healing / by Mariama Kaba
Fund black futures as an abolitionist demand / Janaé E. Bonsu
Meditations on abolitionist practices, reformist moments / with Rachel Herzing and Erica R. Meiners
Ten strategies for cultivating community accountability / by Ann Russo
Section 4: Building Resistance for the Long Term
By any means necessary: reflections on Malcolm X's birthday- what is what's necessary is awe-inspiring, unconditional, militant love? / by adrienne maree brown
Loving inward: the importance of intimacy / by Jermond "JFresh" Davis
"Making the We as big as possible" / an interview with Damon Williams by Alice Kim
Schooling and the prison-industrial complex / by People's Education Movement Chicago: Erica R. Davila, Mathilda de Dios, Valentina Gamboa-Turner, Angel Pantoja, Isaura B. Pulido, Ananka Shony, and David O. Stovall
Uprooting the punitive practices of New York's Parole Board / by Mujahid Farid
Ban the box and the impact of organizing / by Formerly Incarcerated people / by Linda Evans
#CLOSErikers / dr by Janos Marton
A mother confronts Chicago police torture / by Mary L. Johnson
Pelican Bay hunter strike: building unity behind bars / by Claude Marks and Isaac Ontiveros
The Lil' Paralegal Who Could and the Birth of a New Law / by Patrick Pusley
Playlists and Liner Notes.
Section 5: Litanies for Survival
Whole Foods, Black Wall Street, and my 13-inch flat-screen TV / by Andre Patterson
Life on the registry / by Tammy Bond
Contradictory notes on a question: Harrison Seuga on what it means to be free, stay free, and to free others / by Roger Viet Chung
"Strugglin', strivin', and survivin'" / an interview with Damien, Carlthel, and Elizabeth Brent by Sarah Ross
Beyond survivor's guilt: responding to sibling's incarceration / Maya Schenwar
Breaking walls: lessons from Chicago / by Alice Kim
Affirmation / by Eva L. Ewing
Formerly incarcerated, convicted people and families movement platform / by FICPFM.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Essays.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
