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1. 1. "Prisons Make Us Safer"

   And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

   

   This book challenges the assumption that incarceration makes communities safer, arguing that prisons and policing perpetuate violence, racial injustice, and social harm rather than preventing it; through historical analysis, data, personal testimony, and profiles of survivors and activists, it exposes the limits and collateral damage of carceral responses to crime and intimate violence. It critiques how policies around domestic violence, drug use, and public safety funnel people—especially those from marginalized communities—into punitive systems that fail to address root causes, and proposes community-based alternatives such as transformative justice, harm reduction, and restorative practices as more effective paths to accountability and safety.

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2. 2. Resistance Behind Bars

   The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

   

   A collection of firsthand accounts, essays and interviews documenting how incarcerated women and gender‑nonconforming people resist dehumanization and abuse in U.S. jails and prisons; it traces campaigns of hunger strikes, work stoppages, legal challenges and mutual aid that confront sexual violence, medical neglect and punitive policies, while situating those struggles within abolitionist, feminist and anti‑racist critiques of the carceral system, highlighting solidarity, survival strategies and the links between inside resistance and broader movements for justice.

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