Captive afterlives in the age of mass conviction

Burch, Melissa

doi:10.1080/02757206.2019.1638778

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“…Whole families, communities, and neighborhoods are drawn into their effects (Gilmore, 2007;Sawyer & Wagner, 2020), and people who have been in the system face restrictions on access to work, housing, family, and loved ones, and must bear the long-term stigma of conviction. These "afterlives of conviction" amount to a state of extended captivity (Burch, 2019) through restrictions on social life.…”

Section: The Stakes Of Carceral Designmentioning

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How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment

Agid

2022

Space and Culture

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The notion that policing and incarceration are permanent and necessary, if in need of reform or more “humane” design, guides contemporary practices of making in a range of design fields and, increasingly, designers’ forays into policy- and government service-making. These projects often take the form of spatial interventions and proposals for new jails, police stations, and, in some cases, the reorganization of the spaces around them. This article examines three projects—Chicago’s Polis Station, the New York City Justice Hubs, and the Oakland Power Projects—that contend with the infrastructure of the prison industrial complex, in part by asking people questions about policing and incarceration to envision what to build. Here, I focus on what shaped these questions, and how the questions in turn shaped the possibilities for design that emerged from them, in ways that matter deeply to the imbrication of architecture, design, and punishment.

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How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment

Agid

2022

Space and Culture

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“…Fred and Ken identify two problems that plague life in Cliptown: (1) the hierarchical labor structure within and surrounding prisons and (2) the limited life opportunities for convicted felons after their release. In the current system, a felony charge continues to hold the formerly incarcerated person captive (Burch 2019), attaching to them as an obstacle that curtails job possibilities, nullifies voting rights, forecloses housing and education opportunities, and enforces perpetual surveillance. The enduring impact of a felony conviction is a core reason that for every 10 people released from prison in the United States, 8.3 will be re-incarcerated within nine years.…”

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Work without Labor: Life in the Surround of a Rural Prison Town

Pearson

2021

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article challenges the idea that the U.S. prison boom is a federally driven fix. By assembling a two-hundred-year regional history of Cliptown, New Jersey—a rural town with five prisons and three police departments—the article indicates that prisons appear not as an external fix but as the most recent technological iteration of a homegrown system that has always functioned to capture labor through white supremacist domination. Locally historicizing the evolution of this dominating system, however, refuses to concede the final word to prisons and earlier confinement technologies, concluding, instead, in an alternative space that exceeds the capture of confinement, where formerly incarcerated people collaborate to expand freedoms and to practice being unavailable for confinement’s servitude.

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The Carceral State: An American Story

Khan

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This article reviews key works in the anthropology of mass incarceration, generated by anthropologists and their interlocutors whose research is directed outside physical sites of imprisonment. My geographical focus is on the United States during the last decade's political and economic Zeitgeist, shaped by the manifestations and consequences of the carceral state and the prison industrial complex. My discussion is also guided by research invigorated by anthropology's decolonizing drive and growing concern about racism within and outside the academy. Along the way, and emphasized in the final section, I make the case that anthropology's abiding interest in kinship is a productive approach for configuring our understanding of the American carceral state and the racial landscapes of carcerality. The research reviewed shows how deeply carcerality is embedded in race, illuminating its destructiveness in Black and brown communities, yet also revealing the creation of regenerative spaces of kinship.

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Captive afterlives in the age of mass conviction

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment

How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment

Work without Labor: Life in the Surround of a Rural Prison Town

The Carceral State: An American Story

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