Global Lockdown: Gender, Race and Prisons

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This course critically examines the situations, conditions and impact of the Global Prison Industrial Complex. We pay careful attention to incarcerated populations, particularly focusing on race, gender, immigration and religious affiliations and study the intersections, or convergences, of prison, imprisonment, and confinement with policing, immigration policies and private prison industries. While we will explore the structural questions that shape mass incarceration, we will also address to the everyday experiences of people and families held captive within the system.