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The proliferation of antiprison groups during the decade when this book was in progress indicates how many kinds of people understand that prison is not a building “over there” but a set of relationships that undermine rather than stabilize everyday lives everywhere. Unfortunately, many remedies pr…

As the carceral entrepreneur—himself an ex-prisoner— explained how much good the prison would bring to South Central, the ROCers listened closely. Then, in an orderly show of po- litical passion, each one told him why, from her perspective, the ROC would never endorse the facility. His claim that s…