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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Empowerment or Incarceration? Reclaiming Hope and Justice from a Punishing Democracy Stephen John Hartnett 1 Part I DIagnosIng the CrIsIs 1. Building an Abolition Democracy; or, The Fight against Public Fear, Private Benefits, and Prison Expansion Erica R. Meiners 15 PoeM “Another Day in the Champaign County Jail” Dennis Mansker 41 2. Militarizing the Police: Officer Jon Burge, Torture, and War in the “Urban Jungle” Julilly Kohler-Hausmann 43 PoeM “Gotta Be Careful Where Ya Plant Ya Feet” Marvin Mays 72 3. Killing Democracy; or, How the Drug War Drives the Prison-Industrial Complex Daniel Mark Larson 73 PoeM “Another Day” Erika Baro 105 4. Teaching You to Love Fear: Television News and Racial Stereotypes in a Punishing Democracy Travis L. Dixon 106 POEM “In Search of Salvation” William T. Smith 124 5. Diagnosing the Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline: Maximum Security, Minimum Learning Rose Braz and Myesha Williams 126 PART II PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS, VISIONARY ALTERNATIVES 6. “A Piece of the Reply”: The Prison Creative Arts Project and Practicing Resistance Buzz Alexander 149 POEM “The Poet’s Corner” George Hall 179 7. Each One Reach One: Playwriting and Community Activism as Redemption and Prevention Robin Sohnen 181 POEM “Devil Talks” Robert “Chicago” McCollum 201 8. Fostering Cultures of Achievement in Urban Schools: How to Work toward the Abolition of the Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline Garrett Albert Duncan 203 POEM “January 3, 2009” Nicole Monahan 228 9. Humanizing Education behind Bars: Shakespeare and the Theater of Empowerment Jonathan Shailor 229 POEM “Anger” Kenneth Sean Kelly 252 10. Breaking Down the Walls: Inside-Out Learning and the Pedagogy of Transformation Lori Pompa 253 Appendix: Prisoner Art and the Work of Community Building Janie Paul 273 Contributors 275 Index 281 Illlustrations follow page 148 ...

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