{"product_id":"a-wall-is-just-a-wall-9781478025870","title":"A Wall Is Just a Wall","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits in states ranging from Mississippi to Massachusetts, Reiko Hillyer examines the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to occasionally experience life beyond prison walls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Drawing on meticulous research and amplifying the voices of prisoners and their families and advocates, \u003ci\u003eA Wall Is Just a Wall\u003c\/i\u003e is materialist history at its best. Reiko Hillyer’s beautifully narrated historical lessons and analyses of the contested sites of clemency, conjugal visitation, and furlough policies spur us to newly imagine the porosity of prison walls and, ultimately, prison abolition as justice long overdue.” -- Sora Y. Han, author of * Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this impressive study, historian Hillyer documents the relative openness of American prisons in the early 20th century and the subsequent 'thickening and hardening of prison walls.' . . . This thorough work of historical scholarship draws extensively on inmate newspapers to provide an eye-opening look at the high value prisoners placed on family visits, furlough, and the possibility of clemency, making their cancellation its own form of psychological punishment. Readers concerned by mass incarceration should take note.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Boundaries of Mercy: Clemency, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration\u003cbr\u003e 1. Clemency in the Age of Jim Crow: Mercy and White Supremacy  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Freedom Struggles: Clemency Hangs in the Balance in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement  46\u003cbr\u003e 3. The House of the Dying: The Decline of Clemency under the New Jim Crow  65\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Strange Bedfellows: Conjugal Visits, Belonging, and Social Death\u003cbr\u003e 4. Southern Hospitality: The Rise of Conjugal Visits  89\u003cbr\u003e 5. “It’s Something We Must Do”: The National Reach of Conjugal Visits  109\u003cbr\u003e 6. “Daddy Is in Prison”: The Decline of Conjugal Visits and the Strange Career of Family Values  129\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Weekend Passes: Furloughs and the Risks of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e 7. “To Rub Elbows with Freedom”: Temporary Release in the Jim Crow South  13\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conquering Prison Walls: Furloughs at the Crossroads of the Rehabilitative Ideal  174\u003cbr\u003e 9. The End of Redemption: Willie Horton and Moral Panic  194\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  213\u003cbr\u003e Notes  229\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  303\u003cbr\u003e Index  335","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409019216215,"sku":"9781478025870","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025870.jpg?v=1730505118","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-wall-is-just-a-wall-9781478025870","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}