New Book
- Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment "Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates are now in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Jessica Simes argues that mass incarceration should be conceptualized as one of the legacies of U.S. racial residential segregation, but that a focus on large cities has diverted vital scholarly and policy attention away from communities affected most by mass incarceration today."
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About Mass Incarceration in America
This guide provides selective course-specific resources for MET CJ510: Mass Incarceration in America
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- Sociologist Jessica Simes’ New Book Explores the Toll of Mass Incarceration and Its Racial Disparities Drawing on insights from community and urban sociology,” writes Simes, she aims to understand “how mass incarceration became part of the deep and durable forms of disadvantage concentrated in America’s poorest and most vulnerable neighborhoods.”
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Featured Resource: Solitary Gardens
- Solitary Gardens he Solitary Gardens, turns solitary confinement cells into garden beds that are the same size and blue-print as the cell Herman, and so many others spend decades in. The contents (plants, flowers and herbs) of the prison-cell-turned-garden-bed are designed by prisoners serving their sentences in isolation through proxies on the outside.
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This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.