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Liat Ben-Moshe will join a virtual event with The New Press on Friday, May 21 at 2:00 p.m. (3:00 Eastern) for a discussion of her book,
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. She will be joined by Angela Y. Davis, Beth Richie, Maya Schenwar, and Victoria Law for a conversation about disability, madness, and prison abolition.
Liat Ben-Moshe provides case studies that show how prison abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Her analysis of lived experience, history, and culture charts a way out of a failing system of incarceration.
To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up
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One of the most pervasive myths about incarceration is that it makes a society safer. Now, a leading journalist who focuses on the criminal legal system has taken on that question in her new book.
Victoria Law is a prolific reporter who is perhaps best known for spending years in the trenches exploring the experiences of women in prison. Her work always centers the voices of impacted people, while maintaining a broad lens on mass incarceration and digging deep into a wider variety of issues related to prison and jails.