Against Imprisonment : An Anthology of Abolitionist Essays.

Cover -- Copyright and publication details -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- The author of the Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Against Imprisonment -- The penal utopia (or how we learn to stop worrying and to love the prison) -- The penal dystopia (or punishing the poor with a good conscience) -- Table 1: Social Background of Prisoners in England and Wales in 2016 -- The point is to change it (or act upon a bad conscience) -- Walking Among the Graves of the Living -- Learning from the chaplains -- Bearing witness to denial -- Contradictions, tensions and abolitionist praxis -- Escaping the Logic of "Crime" -- Ontological reality -- People in glass houses should not throw stones -- Responsibilities for the Other -- Confronting the logic of "crime" -- Justifications of Punishment and Questions of Penal Legitimacy -- Consequentialism -- Retributivism -- Abolitionism -- Table 2: "Criminal Justice" or Restorative Justice Values? -- The magician's trick -- The Changing Face of the Prison -- Less eligibility and the treatment and training ideology -- The crisis of containment -- The end of an era -- The liberal penological consensus -- The Woolf agenda -- Back from the future -- Coming full circle -- From "Rehabilitation Revolution" to "Safety and Reform" -- Riding on the penal merry-go-round -- Problematising "Common-sense" Understandings of Prison Violence -- Constructing the narrative -- Table 3: Proportion of Sampled Articles Including Prison Officer Voice -- Prison safety and reform -- Table 4: Number of Staff in 143 prisons in 1835 -- Table 5: Fatal and Serious Accidents and Occupations in 1923 -- Always report assaults -- Contextualising the past: beyond agnosis, silencing and denial -- Contesting the Spirit of Death -- Civil death -- Social death -- Corporeal death.

Contesting the spirit of death -- A matter of life and death -- Saying NO to the Mega-prison -- HMP Hindley: The worst prison in the country -- Sentencing the poor to a life of misery -- Table 6: Examples of Prison Rates in the Most Deprived Areas -- Table 7: Examples of Prison Rates in the Least Deprived Areas -- Welfare cuts and prison bruises -- The toxic mega-prison -- Invest in communities, not prisons -- Unequalled in Pain -- Economic and social inequalities -- Tough talk, suitable enemies and the punitive trap -- Conclusion: What is to be done? -- Bibliography -- Index -- The Maze Prison -- Suicide in Prisons -- Transgender Behind Prison Walls -- Journey to Release -- Prison on Trial -- Back cover.

Provides a compelling analysis of the failings of imprisonment. Sheds new light on this pressing topic. Explains why prisons do not work for most offenders.

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