'Revolutionises our understanding of the carceral state' - Fidelis Chebe, Director of Migrant ActionDuring 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 million hours of labour were carried out by more than 12,500 people incarcerated in prisons, while many people in immigration removal centres also worked.
Better To Be Feared is the true story of a 48-year-old businessman who, having pled guilty to perpetrating a fraud involving a fake business contract, was plunged into the dark world of life inside some of Britain's hardest jails.
Beyond Criminal Courts is a collection of resources created for organizers, advocates and community members working together to build the organizing-power we need to defund, divest, and ultimately to dismantle criminal courts for good.
The New York Times bestseller and 'Bible of a social movement' (San Francisco Chronicle)Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of the state's response to public health and public order issues through deeply flawed legislation.
In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness.
Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States.
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily TelegraphFor over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a pillar of Havana's expat community, one of many foreign businessmen investing in Cuba's crawl from Cold War communism towards modernity.
For several years, Wally Lamb, the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women.
A compelling history of silence as a shaper of the human mind-in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives-from the author of Brilliant.
La pena de muerte constituye un tema que ha cobrado enorme importancia en el mbito internacional, debido a que su aplicacin como retribucin justa ante los graves actos delictivos ha puesto en evidencia aristas de cualquier ndole: histricas, jurdicas, filosficas, estadsticas, psicoanalticas y, por supuesto, ticas; de ah que su discusin presenta un amplio espectro que dificulta considerablemente tanto su anlisis como la bsqueda de respuestas, debido a la creciente preocupacin por hacer extensiva la proteccin de los derechos humanos.
Sentenced to death in 1965 at age twenty for an unpremeditated murder during the bungled holdup of a convenience store, Billy Wayne spent his first seven prison years on death row.
A call to replace Canada's incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and - most of all - unnecessary.
Refundacion penitenciara de Jalisco analiza los diversos sistemas internacionales que se han aplicado, a traves del historial en el ambito penitenciario.
El ámbito carcelario constituye un objeto poco estudiado por la academia, a pesar de su importancia para la consolidación de la democracia y los derechos humanos en el Perú y América Latina.
"En mayo de 2018 una noticia marcó los titulares de los medios: dos jóvenes chilenos que hacían un viaje de aventura turística arriesgaban una condena a morir en la horca por el asesinato de una ciudadana trans en Kuala Lumpur, capital de Malasia.
Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musicians scenic route to fame and artistic validation.
As seen in BBC3's documentary series High: Surviving a Dubai Drugs Bust, Karl Williams describes being banged up in brutal conditions in this gritty autobiography.
The word "e;prison"e; immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards.
Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present.
The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics.
Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration.
