Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City by Jarrod Shanahan, Zhandarka Kurti

Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City

Jarrod Shanahan, Zhandarka Kurti

272 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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A damning account of the latest transformation in mass incarceration, revealing how powerful nonprofits and so-called progressives used the language of social movements to build new jails. In 2019, after unyielding pressure from activists, New Yor...

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