Life beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town

by Heath Pearson

In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey-a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail. Pearson places today's prisons within the region's longer history of Lenape genocide, chattel slavery, Japanese American labor camps, and other forms of racialized punishment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478026928
• ISBN13: 9781478026921
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"