Postscript: “Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: Abolition Dreams and the Prison’s Aftermath
Sara M. Benson
Chapter from the book: Benson, S. 2019. The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law.
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Chapter from the book: Benson, S. 2019. The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law.
The book’s concluding chapter emphasizes the birth of the carceral state and tries to imagine a time in the afterlife of the prison. The postscript circles back to the question of what the prison means for the idea of democracy and what it would mean to imagine a world without prisons or mass incarceration.
Benson, S. 2019. Postscript: “Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: Abolition Dreams and the Prison’s Aftermath. In: Benson, S, The Prison of Democracy. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.66.g
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Published on April 16, 2019