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Arizona

Arizona State University
The Cost of Immigrant Detention
How do profits shape punishment?

California

University of California, Riverside
In Detention
How have youth been criminalized?

Connecticut

University of Connecticut
Digging Deep into the Carceral Past
What should tourists learn at a historic prison?

Florida

University of Miami
Crimmigration at Krome
Processing center or prison?

Georgia

Kennesaw State University
Past is Precedent: Incarcerating Non-Citizens
What rights should non-citizens have?

Illinois

DePaul University
Legacies and Voices
What do you want your legacy to be?

Indiana

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Intersections of Mass Incarceration and Mental Illness
Why are prisons the nation’s mental hospitals?

Louisiana

University of New Orleans
Windows on Angola Prison
Sentenced to slavery, stuck in Jim Crow?

Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Reforming Gender and the Carceral State
What are women’s prisons for?
Northeastern University
The Norfolk Prison Colony Debating Society
Are prisons for punishment or rehabilitation?

Michigan

Michgan State University
Genius Blossoms Behind Prison Walls
Can Prisons Be Sites of Culture and Leisure?

Minnesota

University of Minnesota
Carceral Colonialism: Imprisonment in Indian Country
How has settler colonialism shaped the carceral state?

New Jersey

Rutgers University-Newark
"Seeking Asylum, Resisting Detention"
How can detained immigrants and asylees fight back?
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Seabrook Farms and “Free” Labor
How is the racialized prisoner the ideal worker?

New York

The New School
Rikers Island, NY 11370: In Plain Sight
How do you see Rikers Island?
Skidmore College
Closing a Prison, Deferring a Dream
What's lost when a prison closes?
SUNY Plattsburgh
Cuffs to Classroom: College in Prison
How Can Higher Education Redefine Mass Incarceration in New York's North Country?
Parsons Paris
Michel Foucault and the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons
How can information inspire action?

North Carolina

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Voices from the Chain Gang
What Can We Learn From Listening?
Duke University
Death and Life at Central Prison
Who is the death penalty for?

Ohio

Antioch College
Life Sentences: Death Penalty on the Installment Plan
How much time is enough time?

Rhode Island

Brown University
Locked Up—Understanding Prison in Pre-Modern Context
How do prisons reflect societal values?

Tennessee

Vanderbilt University
Prison Profiteering in a Nuclear Shadow
Why do rural communities become prison towns?

Texas

University of Texas at Austin
Spatial Stories of Migration and Detention
How does architecture shape punishment?

West Virginia

West Virginia University
A Place for Women: Rising Incarceration Numbers Outpace Resources
How Has the Mass Incarceration of Women Changed West Virginia?