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Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar

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The New York City Jail for Women and Gender Expansive People

i am going to give an example of the privatization of unseated land in ebenza. In the city of new york, there's been an ongoing crisis over the city jails. So famously, rikers island, which has been the penal colony for many decades, has been roundly condemned politically. The people inside who work there will not be prison s. It's going to be run by a nofor profit. But in order to achieve this spectacularly wonderful new lock up for women, engender expansive people, the city of New York must break the union contract with the prison guards.

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