TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: "Empowerment or Incarceration? Reclainung Hope & Justice
From a Punishing Democracy," by Stephen John Hartnett
Part One: Diagnosing the Crisis
Chapter One: "Building an Abolition Democracy; or, The Fight Against Public Fear,
Private Benefits, and Prison Expansion," by Erica R. Meiners
Poem: "Another Day in the Champaign County Jail," by Dennis Mansker
Chapter Two: lV1ilitarizing the Police: Office John Burge, the "Vietnamese Treatment,"
& Vigilantism in the "Urban Jungle," by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Poem: "Gotta be Careful Where Ya Plant Ya Feet," by Marvin Mays
Chapter Three: Killing Democracy; or, How the Drug War Drives the
Prison-Industrial Complex, by Daniel Mark Larson
Poem: "Another Day," by Erika Baro
Chapter Four: Teaching You to Love Armageddon: TV News and Racial
Stereotypes in a Punishing Democracy, by Travis L. DL'{on
Poem: "In Search of Salvation," by William T. Snlith
Chapter Five: Diagnosing the Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline: Maximum Security,
Minimum Learning, by Rose Braz and Myesha Williams
Part Two: Practical Solutions, Visionary Alternatives
Chapter Six: '''A Piece of the Reply': The Prison Creative Arts Project
& Practicing Resistance," by Buzz Alexander
Poem: "The Poet's Corner," by George Hall
Chapter Seven: "Each One Reach One: Play-Writing & Conununity Activism
as Redemption and Prevention," by Robin Sohnen
Poem: "Devil Talks," by Robert "Chicago" McCollum
Chapter Eight: "Fostering Cultures of Achievement in Urban Schools:
How to Work Toward the Abolition of the Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline,"
by Garrett Albert Duncan
Poem: "Being Pregnant in Prison," by Georgiana Valdez
Chapter Nine: "Humanizing Education Behind Bars: Shakespeare and
The Theatre of Empowerment," by Jonathan Shailor
Poem: "Anger," by K Sean Kelly
Chapter Ten: "Breaking Down the Walls: Inside-Out Learning & the Pedagogy
of Transformation," by Lori Pompa
Appendix: "Prisoner Art & the Work of Community Building," by Janie Paul
Image 1: Frankie Davis, The 911
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Image 4: Nancy Jean King, StreHed, 1997
Image 5: Fred Mumford, Priso!ler/l1dmtlial COJJlP/ex~ 2007
Image 6: Bryan Picken, COl1jiJcated GoodJ~ 2009
Image 7: Wynn Satterlee, Free lVly DadcD', 2005.
Image 8: Kinnari Sutariya, Emalldpatiol/, 2009
Image 9: Martin Vargas, Prisol/ Death Scel/e, 1996
Image 10: Virgil Williams III, Tarbaf?)"s ObJeJJiOll, 2000
Contributor Biographies
Index