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Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State

  • Kirstine Taylor
2025
The University of Chicago Press

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Female prisoners at Parchman sewing.
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From Chain Gangs to the “Modern” Southern Prison

Those who sought to modernize and reform prisons have expanded them in the process and more permanently entrenched a racialized carceral state.
by Kirstine Taylor via Inquest on October 29, 2025
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