Reviews

Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada by Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, Allison C. Carey

yourvillainoriginstory's review against another edition

4.0

This book is super helpful for everyone engaged in prison abolition, disability justice, and in undoing m colonialism globally. There are other spaces the authors could have explored such as nursing homes, convalescent centers, homeless shelters, reservations, and there are ways they could have made the text more accessible or perhaps more expansive by involving a wider range of writers (maybe letter writing with disabled people who are currently incarcerated). That said, it reveals the interrelated histories of disability and incarceration in the US and Canada in ways I haven’t seen in a dedicated collection. Each chapter is important enough to demand its own curriculum of knowledge. It’s canon in multiple traditions, a modern intellectual’s classic.