Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 002: The Perpetual Crisis of Mass Incarceration
Room: Indiana Room

Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Law and Society

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Christopher Dum, Kent State University

Description: 

This session examines issues raised by the carceral state and the use of mass incarceration.

Papers:

“Governing the Ungovernable: Prisons and the ‘Inevitable Intimacy’ of Confinement,” Lauren Hagani, The University of Chicago

“Life Goes On: Navigating Reentry after Long-term Incarceration,” Kristen M. Budd, Sabrina Pearce, Warren Allen and Leyda Pereyra, The Sentencing Project

“Manufacture and Maintenance of Crisis: How Drug Courts and Homeless Policies Extend the Carceral State,” Maya Lucita McKeever, University of Southern California

“Shuffling within the System: The Pervasive Uncertainty of Prison Transfers,” Iolanthe Brooks, Northwestern University, Winner of the Crime and Justice Division’s Student Paper Competition

---