Dan Berger (blurbed Schenwar's previous book).Michelle Alexander has written the foreword and is a major endorser of the authors' research and reporting.Truthout's publisher would like to coordinate with us to promote the book.Schenwar is Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, a news website with 168k followers on twitter.Schenwar has been interviewed on C-SPAN, Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera, and MSNBC and has written for outlets such as the NYT, Mother Jones, The Nation, and The Guardian.
Law has been interviewed on Democracy Now!, WNYC, and Melissa Harris-Perry and has written for outlets such as the NYT, The Nation, Wired, The Village Voice, and In These Times.With a foreword by Michelle Alexander, Prison by Any Other Name exposes how a kinder narrative of reform is effectively obscuring an agenda of social control, challenging us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change, and offering a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices. Whether readers are seasoned abolitionists or are newly interested in sensible alternatives to retrograde policing and criminal justice policies and approaches, this highly praised book offers “a wealth of critical insights” that will help readers “tread carefully through the dizzying terrain of a world turned upside down” and “make sense of what should take the place of mass incarceration” ( The Brooklyn Rail). But in a searing, “cogent critique” ( Library Journal), Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal that many of these so-called reforms actually weave in new strands of punishment and control, bringing new populations who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment under physical control by the state. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration”Įlectronic monitoring.
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