{"product_id":"skyscraper-jails-the-abolitionist-fight-against-jail-expansion-in-new-york-city-9798888902646","title":"Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA damning account of the latest transformation in mass incarceration, revealing how powerful nonprofits and so-called progressives used the language of social movements to build new jails.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eIn 2019, after unyielding pressure from activists, New York City seemed poised to close the detested Rikers Island penal colony. The local press dutifully reported that the end of Rikers was imminent, and New Yorkers celebrated the closure of the country's largest urban jail, condemned as a moral stain on an otherwise great city. The problem, however, was that the city had not actually committed to closing Rikers. And at the same time, it laid the groundwork for the construction of \u003cem\u003emore \u003c\/em\u003ejails, a network of skyscraper facilities amounting to the largest carceral construction the city has seen in decades.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How did this happen?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003eSkyscraper Jails\u003c\/em\u003e, scholars and organizersJarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti detail how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise \"downsized\" and \"humane\" jails. The principal advocates of these new jails were not right-wing politicians, but prominent city activists and progressive non-profit organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As the political coalition that campaigned for the new jails fans out across the United States, the story at the heart of \u003cem\u003eSkyscraper Jails \u003c\/em\u003eis at once a case study and a cautionary tale for what will be coming to cities and towns across the United States and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZhandarka Kurti\u003c\/strong\u003eis an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Loyola University Chicago. Her work examines race, class, criminalization and punishment through a historical and contemporary perspective. She is the co-author of \u003cem\u003eStates of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform and the Future of America's Punishment System\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003eTreason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJarrod Shanahan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eCaptives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage\u003c\/em\u003e, co-author of \u003cem\u003eStates of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCity Time: On Being Sentence to Rikers Island\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming from NYU Press, and editor of Tre\u003cem\u003eason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Chicago and works as an assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University in University Park, IL.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183459270930,"sku":"9798888902646","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b25e45f-aa83-4288-aaef-6b76234b24a6.jpg?v=1744467507","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/skyscraper-jails-the-abolitionist-fight-against-jail-expansion-in-new-york-city-9798888902646","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}