Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short,
accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles
against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier
show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings,
and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison
conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps
of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and
1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents,
Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to
anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the
struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.
