This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links
between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are …

Disabled people have historically inhabited institutions ranging from group homes to
prisons, and in this essay Liat Ben-Moshe calls for critical attention for those who are …

Through this collection, we hope to engage in and inspire dialogue across people interested
in imprisonment, institutionalization, and other sites of incarceration and segregation …

Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields.
Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to …

This article suggests the merits of conceptualizing incarceration as including
institutionalization in a wide variety of enclosed settings, including prisons, jails, institutions …

There are many ways in which one can fight for social justice or social change. This chapter
will interrogate the connections between two main sites in which abolition of oppressive …

In a revealing article in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of American History,
historian Heather Ann Thompson argues that “focusing new historical attention... on the …

This chapter describes the removal of marked bodies from public generative spaces, such
as schools, to restrictive spaces of isolation, violence, and shame, such as prisons. I argue …

The story of disablement and the prison industrial complex must begin with a trail of telling
numbers: a disproportionate number of persons incarcerated in US prisons and jails are …

Three widely discussed explanations of the punitive carceral state are racism, harsh drug
laws, and prosecutorial overreach. These three narratives, however, only partially explain …