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SUMMARY:Coal\, Cages\, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central A
 ppalachia - Dr Judah Schept (Eastern Kentucky University)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230221T161500Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230221T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Event details: As the United States began the project of mass 
 incarceration\, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy
  for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.
 S. since 1980\, with certain regions of the country accounting for large s
 hares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region\; the
 re are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. Drawing from his recent bo
 ok Coal\, Cages\, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appala
 chia (New York University Press\, 2022)\, the talk will examine this dense
  carceral geography\, paying particular attention to the purported role of
  the prisons to address crises of both production and social reproduction 
 in the wake of the collapse of the coal industry. The talk will also explo
 re recent developments\, including the devastating floods of 2022 and the 
 ongoing attempt to build the newest federal prison in the region in Letche
 r County\, the center of the flood zone. A coalition of activists defeated
  a proposal for construction in 2019\, a victory which established rural A
 ppalachia as a primary battlefront in the struggle against mass incarcerat
 ion. But in a testament to the arrogant tenacity of the carceral state\, t
 he Bureau of Prisons announced the resumption of its efforts to construct 
 a prison in the county just two months after the floods. Schept’s talk w
 ill draw together these and other examples from his book in order to argue
  for the importance of linking the prison boom to the extraction and dispo
 sal processes that have long categorized dominant development strategies f
 or the region.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nJudah Schept is a Professor in the 
 School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. Grounded in the 
 interdisciplinary field of Critical Prison Studies\, his work examines the
  history\, political economy\, and cultural logics of the carceral state. 
 He is the author of Coal\, Cages\, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy 
 in Central Appalachia (New York University Press\, 2022) and Progressive P
 unishment: Job Loss\, Jail Growth\, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral E
 xpansion (New York University Press\, 2015). He is co-editor of The Jail i
 s Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration (Verso Book
 s\, 2024). His writing can also be found in journals such as Radical Crimi
 nology\, Theoretical Criminology\, Punishment and Society\, Social Justice
 \, Crime\, Media\, Culture\, Inquest\, and the Boston Review. Judah serves
  as the book review editor for Social Justice: A Journal of Crime\, Confli
 ct\, and World Order. He has been active with numerous organizations and c
 ampaigns centered on decarceration\, decriminalization\, and abolition. He
  holds a PhD from Indiana University and a BA from Vassar College. \nSpeak
 ers:\nDr Judah Schept (Eastern Kentucky University)
LOCATION:St Cross Building (Centre for Criminology\, Seminar Room)\, St Cr
 oss Road OX1 3UR
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