Prison Capital
Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illumin...
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| description | Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana’s carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding “crime.” However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits and Angola activists challenging life without parole to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina and LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana’s carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1721372026-02-19T05:16:19Z Prison Capital Pelot-Hobbs, Lydia Mass incarceration Angola Prison expansion Jail expansion Community policing Broken windows policing Racial capitalism Petro capitalism Tourism Louisiana New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Abolition democracy Abolition geography Orleans Parish Prison New Orleans Police Department Black radical tradition Neoliberal governance #Blacktranslivesmatter Community organizing The politics of scale Pardons French Quarter Prison abolition Police abolition Early release Mass criminalization The carceral state Parole Abandonment of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina Law and order Austerity Police brutality Police violence Conditions of confinement Federal court orders Racial liberalism Black geographies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WQ Local and family history, nostalgia::WQH Local history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVP Penology and punishment thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana’s carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding “crime.” However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits and Angola activists challenging life without parole to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina and LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana’s carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms. 2026-02-19T05:16:18Z 2026-02-19T05:16:18Z 2026-02-18T15:35:53Z 2023 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110001 9781469675121 9798890862778 9781469679723 9781469675138 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172137 eng Justice, Power, and Politics open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/110001/3/9781469679723.pdf The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469675138_Pelot-Hobbs 10.5149/9781469675138_Pelot-Hobbs f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 9781469675121 9798890862778 9781469679723 9781469675138 The University of North Carolina Press 392 Chapel Hill open access |
| spellingShingle | Mass incarceration Angola Prison expansion Jail expansion Community policing Broken windows policing Racial capitalism Petro capitalism Tourism Louisiana New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Abolition democracy Abolition geography Orleans Parish Prison New Orleans Police Department Black radical tradition Neoliberal governance #Blacktranslivesmatter Community organizing The politics of scale Pardons French Quarter Prison abolition Police abolition Early release Mass criminalization The carceral state Parole Abandonment of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina Law and order Austerity Police brutality Police violence Conditions of confinement Federal court orders Racial liberalism Black geographies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WQ Local and family history, nostalgia::WQH Local history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVP Penology and punishment thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Pelot-Hobbs, Lydia Prison Capital |
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| topic | Mass incarceration Angola Prison expansion Jail expansion Community policing Broken windows policing Racial capitalism Petro capitalism Tourism Louisiana New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Abolition democracy Abolition geography Orleans Parish Prison New Orleans Police Department Black radical tradition Neoliberal governance #Blacktranslivesmatter Community organizing The politics of scale Pardons French Quarter Prison abolition Police abolition Early release Mass criminalization The carceral state Parole Abandonment of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina Law and order Austerity Police brutality Police violence Conditions of confinement Federal court orders Racial liberalism Black geographies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WQ Local and family history, nostalgia::WQH Local history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVP Penology and punishment thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 |
| topic_facet | Mass incarceration Angola Prison expansion Jail expansion Community policing Broken windows policing Racial capitalism Petro capitalism Tourism Louisiana New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Abolition democracy Abolition geography Orleans Parish Prison New Orleans Police Department Black radical tradition Neoliberal governance #Blacktranslivesmatter Community organizing The politics of scale Pardons French Quarter Prison abolition Police abolition Early release Mass criminalization The carceral state Parole Abandonment of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina Law and order Austerity Police brutality Police violence Conditions of confinement Federal court orders Racial liberalism Black geographies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WQ Local and family history, nostalgia::WQH Local history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVP Penology and punishment thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 |
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