Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex : Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives.

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 -- 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 -- Illustrations.

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