She has written about the prison-industrial complex for Truthout, The New York Times, NBC News, The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Ms. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.Maya Schenwar is the coauthor of Prison by Any Other Name, author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better, and co-editor of Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? She is also Editor-in-Chief of Truthout. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. But-though they're promoted as steps to confront high rates of imprisonment-many of these measures are transforming our homes and communities into prisons instead.
But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under physical control by the state.Īs mainstream public opinion has begun to turn against mass incarceration, political figures on both sides of the spectrum are pushing for reform.
These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. "But what does it mean-really-to celebrate reforms that convert your home into your prison?"Įlectronic monitoring. A crucial indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration" that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance
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