Introduction: The Idea of Leavenworth and the Prison of Democracy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: The Idea of Leavenworth and the Prison of Democracy 1
5. 1. The Architecture of Liberalism and the Origins of Carceral Democracy 15
6. 2. Territorial Politics: Mass Incarceration and the Punitive Legacies of the Indian Territory 34
7. 3. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas 57
8. 4. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas 81
9. 5. Leavenworth’s Political Prisoners: Race, Resistance, and the Prison’s Archive 99
10. Postscript: “Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: Abolition Dreams and the Prison’s Aftermath 118
11. Acknowledgments 123
12. Notes 125
13. Bibliography 167
14. Index 195