It’s looking at things like electronic monitoring of people, body cameras on police, house arrest-all things that have been pitched as alternatives to incarceration. There’s lots of discussion in this text about technological fixes that can end up in themselves becoming digital prisons of sorts and lead us to places where we don’t want to go. So it’s looking at things that, on the face, look like steps in the right direction. It’s looking at a whole range of popular reforms that are often posited as viable and more holistic alternatives to incarceration, but still, as the authors posit, end up being forms of carceral control in their own right. This one is a really, really interesting text. You can check it out on Scribd on audio, which is how I read it. It is out from The New Press in the US, and is coming out in Australia at the end of September. Jaclyn: Our second discussion pick this month is Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. In this week’s episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Incarceration Nations and Prison by Any Other Name.
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