Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Reform or Abolition? 1
5. Chapter 1. Army of the Wronged: Political Prisoners and Black Radicalism 18
6. Chapter 2. The Uses and Abuses of Incarceration: Punishment, Dehumanization, and Slavery 44
7. Chapter 3. A Broken System? Racism and Functional Critique 87
8. Chapter 4. The Prison Industrial Complex: Profit, Privatization, and the Circumstances of Injustice 120
9. Chapter 5. Responding to Crime: Incarceration and Its Alternatives 148
10. Chapter 6. Dreaming Big: Utopian Imagination and Structural Transformation 183
11. Notes 203
12. Index 221