Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Empowerment or Incarceration? Reclaiming Hope and Justice from a Punishing Democracy
PART I: Diagnosing the Crisis
1. Building an Abolition Democracy; or, The Fight against Public Fears, Private Benefits, and Prison Expansion
POEM: Another Day in the Champaign County Jail
2. Militarizing the Police: Officer Jon Burge, Torture, and War in the "Urban Jungle"
POEM: Gotta Be Careful Where Ya Plant Ya Feet
3. Killing Democracy; or, How the Drug War Drives the Prison-Industrial Complex
POEM: Another Day
4. Teaching You to Love Fear: Television News and Racial Stereotypes in a Punishing Democracy
POEM: In Search of Salvation
5. Diagnosing the Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline: Maximum Security, Minimum Learning
PART II: Practical Solutions, Visionary Alternatives
Illustrations
6. "A Piece of the Reply": The Prison Creative Arts Project and Practicing Resistance
POEM: The Poet's Corner
7: Each One Reach One: Playwriting and Community Activism as Redemption and Prevention
POEM: Devil Talks
8. Fostering Cultures of Achievement in Urban Schools: How to Work toward the Abolition of the Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
POEM: January 3, 2009
9. Humanizing Education behind Bars: Shakespeare and the Theater of Empowerment
POEM: Anger
10. Breaking Down the Walls: Inside-Out Learning and the Pedagogy of Transformation
Appendix: Prisoner Art and the Work of Community Building
Contributors
Index