Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality

by Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston

"Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year."
- Malcolm X (a former auto worker)

Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.

American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a "freedom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682193497
• ISBN13: 9781682193495
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: OR Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 5.9"