Episode 22: Prisons

• Anderson, A. (2023). Prison Abolition is Needed Now. Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/mcrp-journal/blog/prison-abolition-is-needed-now-prisons-and-jails-do-not-keep-anyone-safe/
• Bauer, S. (2018). The True History of America’s Private Prison Industry. Time. https://time.com/5405158/the-true-history-of-americas-private-prison-industry/
• BBC. (n.d.). Crime and punishment in 18th- and 19th-century Britain. Bitesize. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zn9sn9q/revision/7
• Correctional Service Canada. (2025). Pre-1920: From punishment to penance. Government of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/correctional-service/corporate/history-csc/timeline/pre-1920.html
• Department of Justice Canada. (2023). Overrepresentation of Indigenous People in the Canadian Criminal Justice System. Government of Canada. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/oip-cjs/p3.html
• Law, V. (2022). Rethinking Incarceration. Harvard Radcliffe Institute. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/rethinking-incarceration
• Moore, J. M. (n.d.). Penal Reform: A History of Failure. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/article/penal-reform-history-failure
• Potier, B. (2003). Abolish prisons, says Angela Davis. The Harvard Gazette. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2003/03/abolish-prisons-says-angela-davis/
• Reid, J. N. (2023). The idea that imprisonment ‘corrects’ prisoners stretches back to some of the earliest texts in history. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-idea-that-imprisonment-corrects-prisoners-stretches-back-to-some-of-the-earliest-texts-in-history-210361
• Stevenson, B. (2019). Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system. The New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html
• Wills, M. (2020). How Mass Incarceration Has Shaped History. JSTOR Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/how-mass-incarceration-has-shaped-history/

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