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Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition (Part 1)

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Prisons and the Progressive Era

In the latter part of the nineteenth century, in the wake of the civil war, as we know, prisoned expanded and rationalized. So prisons were for free people, generally white people, usually people who would check the box mail if they had to check a box. In the south, we know about chain gangs, which were largely, but not exclusively, people of african descent in the north and the south. Both. All kinds of prisons grew up around and through these struggles over wage, over the right to live, the right to stay still,. These were all contributinv factors to the expansion and rationalization of prison in the states. That's, know, what the progressive

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