In this week’s episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Incarceration Nations and A Prison By Any Other Name.

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Books Mentioned

• Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
• Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger

Further Reading

• Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
• After Story by Larissa Behrendt
• Angela Y. Davis body of work (including Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Are Prisons Obsolete?) 
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
• We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
• The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus by Subini Ancy Annamma
• Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System: Selected Topics on Advocacy, Incarceration, and Social Justice edited by Debra Guthmann, Gabriel I. Lomas, Damara Goff Paris, and Gabriel A. “Tony” Martin
• Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada edited by L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman, and A. Carey

Further Resources

• SistersInside & Debbie Kilroy (@debkilroy) #FreeHer #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
• Incarceration Nation (@inc_nation_au) documentary airs 29 August 2021 on NITV
• Article on Incarceration Nation
• The Dhadjowa Foundation 
• 13th (Netflix)
• #RaiseTheAge 
• Amy McQuire
• National Prison Book Program, run by the Australian Prison Foundation (https://alc.org.au) 
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/australia-is-outraged-over-george-floyd-what-about-black-lives-our-shores/ 
• Prison by Any Other Name interview with authors

Currently Reading

• Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
• The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

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