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The kind of imprisonment happening in the United States today is not new. Through careful historical research, Young shows the numerous previous cases of indefinite incarceration that have so quickly exited the generic American psyche. In doing so, he draws attention to who is still entrapped as a forever prisoner, and appeals to our humanity to consider why and how this is so.
Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and worked in this country for years, has left them vulnerable to the most extreme forms of state power. Although the rhetoric surrounding these individuals is extreme, the US government has been locking up immigrants since the late nineteenth century, often for indefinite periods and with limited ability to challenge their…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
Combining first-hand stories from incarcerated students with those who teach them, I felt inspired by this book. In the hardest circumstances, people make meaning and maintain hope. Plus, the opening chapter is an alumnus of my program, the Emerson Prison Initiative. Congratulations, Alexander, on being a published offer several times over!
Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational programs for students in correctional institutions.
Demonstrating the ways that higher education can intervene in and disrupt the deeply traumatic experience of incarceration and shift the embedded social-emotional cycles that lead to recidivism, this book is both inspiration and guide for those seeking to create and sustain programs as well as to educate students about the types of programs universities bring to prisons.
