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Truthout
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Index

A

A New Way of Life,
92

Abu-Jamal, Mumia,
128

Adoption and Safe Families Act,
86

African Americans,
12

assumption of criminality,
49
–50

community spaces in neighborhoods,
177
–80

differentials in sentencing,
12
,
60
,
75

disparities in arrests,
139

effects of mass incarceration on,
49
–52

literacy among,
29
–30

youth at risk,
50
,
141
,
159
–71

Agreement to End Hostilities,
120
–21

Alatorre, Lisa Marie,
186
–87,
195

Alexander, Marissa,
127
,
128

Alexander, Michelle

The New Jim Crow
,
14
,
47
,
124

All of Us or None,
92

American Civil Liberties Union,
125

American Psychological Society,
87

Amerson, Marvin,
76

Amnesty International,
118

Anderson, Joe,
15
–16,
19

Anderson, Sue,
16

Arbitrary Justice
(Davis),
144

Are Prisons Obsolete?
(Davis),
144

Arizona,
16

Audre Lorde Project,
180

Australia,
141

B

Baca, Jimmy,
104
–5

bail system,
126
–
28

“Ballad of Reading Gaol” (Wilde),
64

“ban the box” laws,
75
,
129

Beauty Shop Politics
(Wilkerson),
178
–79

Bell, Herman,
128

Berger, Dan,
119

Berry, Reginald Akkeem,
117
–18,
193
–94

Biking While Black protest,
51

Black and Pink,
29
,
65
,
109
,
122
,
127

Branch-Kennedy, Donald,
129
–30

Branch-Kennedy, Lillie,
128
–30

BreakOut!,
125

Brooklyn, New York,
180

Brooks, Gwendolyn,
77

“truth,”
70
–71

Brown, Tyrone,
128

Bureau of Justice Statistics,
59

Bureau of Prisons,
17

Burton, Susan,
92

C

California,
12
,
14
,
18
,
69
–70,
119
,
132
–33

California Dept. of Corrections,
120

California Families to End Solitary Confinement,
121
–22

Californians United for a Responsible Budget,
132
–33

Campaign to End the New Jim Crow,
124
,
133
–34,
197

Canales, Dorothy,
121

capital punishment,
100
–103,
144

Cárdenas, Micha,
190

Center for Restorative Youth Justice,
146
–48

Chicago Public Schools,
162

school closings,
194

Chicago Reader

“Hell in a Cell,”
117

Chicago,
1
ll.,
33
,
50
,
71
–72,
159
–71,
179
,
193
–95

Austin neighborhood,
177
–79

children,
81
–92,
94
,
105
–7,
126
,
150
,
151
,
177
,
200

abuse of,
127
,
140
–41,
143
,
182

Clear, Todd,
48
,
50
,
63
,
174

Imprisoning Communities
,
50

Colorado,
60

communities

effects of mass incarceration on,
4
,
48
–51,
63
,
71
,
117
,
139
,
186

preserving relationships,
180
–81

role in preventing crime,
155
–56,
157
,
177

role in reintegrating perpetrators,
49
,
147
^9,
150
–51

role in supporting victims,
147
–48,
150
,
153
,
154

Community Builders program,
172
–77,
183
,
188

community-based justice programs,
5
,
91
,
144
,
159
–83

bail and,
126
–27

conjugal visits,
17
–19

Cook County Jail,
9
–11,
21
,
22

correctional officers
see
prison guards

courts, procedures discourage accountability,
149
–50,
154

Creative Interventions,
155

crime

author a victim of theft,
135
–37

defined,
137
–39

as distinguished from harm,
137
–40

reporting rates,
52

victims,
142
–48

Critical Resistance,
4
,
120
,
125

Curt’s Café,
171
–77,
187
–89

D

Davis, Angela J.

Arbitrary Justice
,
144

Davis, Angela Y.,
2
,
3
,
94
,
139
,
185
,
197

Are Prisons Obsolete?
,
144

Davis, Danny K.,
71
–72,
75

Davis, Fania,
161

Decarcerate PA,
134
,
191
–92

decarceration,
118
–26,
134
,
191
–92

Decatur Correctional Center,
21
–25,
89

Decatur, Ill.,
22
–23,
24

Department of Child and Family Services (Ill.),
86
,
95

Derenne, Beth,
31
,
105

DNAInfo Chicago,
194

domestic violence,
52
,
82
,
128
,
143
, 253,
154
–55,
181
–83

Druckworth, Ernest

A Plague of Prisons
,
88

drug addiction,
22
,
28
,
70
,
73
,
87
,
95
,
140
,
194
–95

drug treatment programs,
25
,
59
,
195
–96,
200
–201

Dwight Correctional Center,
118
,
122

Dwyer, Diane,
147

E

Emerson, Bill,
146

Evanston, Ill.,
171
–77,
187
–89

Everyday Abolition,
186
,
195

F

Fair, Barbara,
33
–34,
49
–52,
75

Fair, Harvey,
75

families of prisoners

breakdown of,
3
,
17
,
47
,
49
–52,
63
,
72
,
96
–100,
140
–41

difficulty visiting,
15
–25

effects of imprisonment on,
49
–52

Fischer, Eugene,
30
–31

Flathead County, Mont.,
144
–48

Forster, E.M.

Howard’s End
,
112

foster care,
86
,
87
,
90
,
91
,
94
,
140
–41

Friedmann, Alex,
38
,
60

G

Gallant, Chanelle,
186
–87,
195

gays,
64
,
66
,
171
,
180

gender nonconforming people,
139
,
180

Generation FIVE,
143
,
154

gentrification,
180

Georgia,
65
–66

Gill, Tiffany

Beauty Shop Politics
,
178
–79

Graves, Cheryl,
179

Gray, Marcos,
19
–20,
94

Grennell, Di,
181
–83

Griffith, Lee,
67

H

halfway houses,
75
,
76
,
200

Hamilton, Lacino,
29
–30,
64
,
113
,
138
–39,
140
–41,
152
,
185
,
197

harm, distinguished from crime,
137
–40

Hayden, Joseph,
124

Herzing, Rachel,
4

homelessness,
141
,
175
,
185

Human Rights Defense Center,
38

I

Illinois,
115
–19,
131

Illinois Disproportionate Justice Impact Study Commission,
139

Illinois Supreme Court,
118

Imprisoning Communities
(Clear),
50

Inmate Calling Services,
33

J

Jackson, April,
43
–46

Jackson, Billy,
41

Jackson, Joe,
41
,
42
–46,
93

Jackson, Yvonne,
42
–45

Jiang-Stein, Deborah,
93

John Howard Association,
123

JustLeadershipUSA,
93

K

Kaba, Mariame,
50
,
132
,
137
–38,
140
,
152
–53,
174

“Prison Reform Is in Vogue ... and Other Strange Things,”
132

Keep Kids Learning,
194