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    Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
    Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
    Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
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    Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

    Written by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law and Michelle Alexander

    Narrated by Emily Durante

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    Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under physical control by the state.

    As mainstream public opinion has begun to turn against mass incarceration, political figures on both sides of the spectrum are pushing for reform. But-though they're promoted as steps to confront high rates of imprisonment-many of these measures are transforming our homes and communities into prisons instead.

    In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 21, 2020
    ISBN9781705248607
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    Maya Schenwar

    Maya Schenwar is the editor-in-chief of Truthout. She is co-author (with Victoria Law) of Prison by Any Other Name (The New Press) as well as the author of Locked Down, Locked Out and the co-editor of the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? She lives in Chicago.

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      This was an excellent and necessary book. Deeply inspiring and generative!!!!