Prison

[close] Post-Carceral is an abolitionist collective working to dismantle the carceral state through open-source collaboration, conversation, & community oversight.

[close] First phase, we hope to create a list of books related to the Gulag experience, and in general life under (communist) totalitarian regimes of Soviet extraction. We can also add books related to the persecutions in other totalitarian regimes as well as literature that is relevant to the topic. Then we discuss and come up with a second phase.

[close] Nights are cold and damp at best. The wind howls through the hallway. The corridor is dark, chains rattle, and heavy footfalls echo from end to end. A single light flickers at one end and muffled voices can be heard. There is no hope. There is no improving. This is the end. Once through those doors, they will never see the light of day again. This is, after all, the final resting place for the world's worst criminals. Welcome to Hell. Welcome to Wakefield. Welcome! This group is an Rp based at a prison. Do not join unless you plan on being active. Rp as a prisoner or a guard. Rps per cell will be opened as soon as there are enough members in each cell. If you want to join and see that there are XXX+ posts in one cell, don't be discouraged. You can join and create a new cell where the rp will start at 0. So, kind of like a one on one but it should be a five member rp (four prisoners and one guard). The warden may move from cell to cell at will. Follow all rules. **Only three characters per member!!**

[close] Laissez faire and mass incarceration: How could these possibly go together? Surprisingly, they have and they've been joined at the hip for a long time... It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and punishing. The result, in this country, has been an incendiary combination of laissez faire and mass incarceration. Today, the United States incarcerates over one percent of its adult population, the highest number and rate in the world. In this book and on this forum, Bernard Harcourt discusses the birth of the idea of natural order in economic thought and its gradual evolution into today’s myth of the free market, and he explores how it could possibly have produced the largest government-run penal sphere on the globe. This forum will be live starting March 1, 2011.