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24 January 2023: Abolition and the Prison Industrial Complex

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. (2007). “Introduction,” and “The Prison Fix.” Chs. 1 and 3 in Golden Gulag. Berkeley: University of California Press, 5–29, 87–127. PDF: Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, Golden Gulag Alternative source (requires free registration): https://archive.org/details/GoldenGulag/mode/2up

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson; Toscano, Alberto; Bhandar, Brenna, (2022). Interview: “The Prison-Industrial Complex Goes Beyond Cops and Jails. It’s All Around Us.” Jacobin, 2 August.


Recommended Supplementary Material


(2106). The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (video). Dir. Brett Story


Alli, Sabrina. (2016). "Brett Story: The Prison in 12 Landscapes." Guernica 15 April.

"[Director Brett] Story expands the familiar critique of prisons to show how they shape everything from our bureaucracy and the job market to the demographics of neighborhoods across the country."


Catsoulis, Jenannette. (2016). "Review: ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’ Reveals the Invisible Tentacles of Mass Incarceration." New York Times 3 November.

"Neither lecture nor argument, “Prison,” artfully photographed by Maya Bankovic, attempts to make the invisible visible."


Lerner, Rebecca. (2016). ‘The Prison in 12 Landscapes’ reveals a hidden part of society." The Michigan Daily 23 March.

"Canadian director Brett Story examines the ways in which the prison becomes larger than itself, influencing and reengaging spaces outside of the barbed wire intentionally located hours outside of society."



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