The visit was wonderful, I used to hate the drive along I-10E (AKA the San Bernardino Freeway) and then US 61N (the highway that goes right by Dylan’s “baby’s” door, but that in reality is really depressing) but now with GPS it is possible to snake around beautiful country lanes I wouldn’t be able to … More A visit to Louisiana’s Death Row

And speaking of ramping up, I also have to remember to switch to T-Mobile. If I ever get a ticket to Mexico, that is. ANYWAY. Speaking of Mexicans, Emmelheinz. My notes on her talk were: So I think this is where I could start the rewriting of my prison essay. In the meantime The Nation, … More Emmelheinz

Decarceration / prison abolition is a key piece of the revolution to come. (We HAVE to have revolution according to the Afro-Pessimists, you know, and they would probably say we need the prison system to create the not quite human category of people that are the black ones/black death, and so on). I want to … More The next prison paper

Felber says prison activism was central to the black liberation struggles after the second world war and was MUCH MORE than a result of civil rights workers being held at Parchman; it was not derivative of the civil rights movement. Also, the modern carceral state wasn’t just conservative backlash; it was built in negotiation with … More Adding to That Prison Paper

…working at sub-par wages directly or indirectly for transnational corporations, barred from their homes but immobilized where they are, lacking civil and human rights. The boundary between the two categories is porous, since the migrant can easily become a prisoner. The immobility of these two classes stands in sharp contrast to the free movement of … More On prisons: Cut, but possibly good, or better than what I revised it to

LOOK. And look at the author’s bibliography. This is an important person, whose work I should know and use. Axé.