skip to main | skip to sidebar

Imagined Prisons

Relief Efforts in Haiti

0

Please click here to learn more about Partners In Health, an organization of doctors and activists providing medical care in Haiti.

Posted by Imagined Prisons | Leave a comment...0 comments

Newer Posts Older Posts Home

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Welcome

Imagined Prisons: 'The Prison and the American Imagination,' by Caleb Smith, appeared from Yale University Press in 2009. The book examines the history of the U.S. prison system and its imaginative life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture. This site is a forum for conversation about the book and the questions it raises. What is the history of incarceration in America? What roles do prisons and prisoners play in our political life and in our culture? How have artists and writers, both inside prisons and in the world at large, invited us to imagine the institutions of captivity? Visitors to this site might be interested in the sprawling prison system of the twenty-first century, including the scandals of American war prisons overseas. They may also wish to explore the long, sometimes tortured history of jails, penitentiaries, plantations, and other dark places that have haunted the new world, with its promise of liberty and justice for all.

View my complete profile

Links: Prison Activism, Research, Arts, and Discussion

Alcatraz Island
Amnesty International
Eastern State Penitentiary
Gabriel City
Genpop Prison Blog
Inkarcerated
James Casebere
Jennifer Graber
New York Correction History
PEN Prison Writing Program
Prison Creative Arts Project
Prison Photography
PrisonArts
Real Cost of Prisons
Religion Dispatches
Sentencing Project
Take a Picture, Tell a Story
Texas Tough

Keywords

Archive

► 2012 (1)
- ► February (1)
  - Prison News and Opinion

► 2011 (26)
- ► December (2)
  - Indefinite Detention Comes Home
  - Buried Lives
- ► September (3)
- ► August (2)
  - Arkansas' Prison Farms
  - The Art of the Shiv
- ► July (1)
  - A Hunger Strike in Pelican Bay
- ► June (1)
  - Brown v. Plata: Cruel and Unusual Imprisonment in ...
- ► May (2)
  - A Place to Stand
  - Boom Times in the Incarceration Business
- ► April (2)
  - More Bad News from Guantanamo
  - A Map of Mass Incarceration
- ► March (6)
- ► February (4)
- ► January (3)

▼ 2010 (18)
- ► December (3)
- ► November (1)
  - Immigration and Incarceration
- ► September (2)
  - The Economic Crisis and the Prison Business
  - "Julia Moore, Eastern State Penitentiary Inmate," ...
- ► August (1)
  - The Drug War and the Prison Business
- ► July (1)
  - Religion and the Rise of the Penitentiary
- ► May (3)
- ► April (1)
  - May 1 Event: The Prison-Spirituality Complex
- ► March (4)
- ► February (1)
  - "Christian Reformation" by Jennifer Graber
- ▼ January (1)
  - Relief Efforts in Haiti

► 2009 (16)
- ► December (1)
  - Photographs of Eastern State Penitentiary by Ted D...
- ► November (2)
  - Memoirs from Behind Bars
  - The Return of Prison Studies
- ► October (1)
  - Communication and Cooperative Labor in the Separat...
- ► September (2)
  - Walt Whitman's "The Singer in the Prison"
- ► August (2)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (1)

◄Design by Pocket Distributed by Deluxe Templates►