Incarceration

A two-story white brick building in disrepair with broken windows and surrounded by overgrown brush and grass. A flight of cement steps and a metal railing lead to the front door.

Trading Bars: Prisons as De Facto Mental Institutions

Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have been barred from “polite” society throughout history. Many will eventually find their way to prison, behind a different set of bars, where there is little incentive to treat. Have we simply traded one form of confinement for another, even more cruel one?

 
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Overhauling the American Prison Industry: A View From 20 Years of Incarceration

In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Maurice Tyree, author of The Darkest Parts of my Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution (co-authored with Katie Singer), they examine the numerous problems and possible solutions to the disaster that is the American carceral state. 

 
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