Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a significant contribution to the literature on the federal prison system, and of particular import to any historian, sociologist, political scientist, or activist concerned with unravelling the intertwined histories of race, state-building, and punishment in the United States." * Punishment & Society *
"The Prison of Democracy is an instant classic in contemporary prison studies."
* Social Justice Journal *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Introduction: The Idea of Leavenworth and the Prison of Democracy
1. The Architecture of Liberalism and the Origins of Carceral Democracy
2. Territorial Politics: Mass Incarceration and the Punitive Legacies of the
Indian Territory
3. Federal Punishment and the Legal Time of Bleeding Kansas
4. Prisons at the Border: The Political Geography of the
Mason-Dixon Line
5. Leavenworth’s Political Prisoners: Race, Resistance,
and the Prison’s Archive
Postscript: “Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: Abolition Dreams
and the Prison’s Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
