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Melanie Newport (UConn), "Jailed People and the Fight against Mass Incarceration in Chicago"

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    Melanie Newport is an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut. She is author of the forthcoming book, This Is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration (forthcoming with University of Pennsylvania Press). While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive jailing.

    Part of the Urban History Workshop sponsored by the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and the History Department.

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    Created By: College of Liberal Arts, Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
    Sponsors: Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
    Open To: Public
    Intended Audience: Open to all
    Type: Lecture
    Tags: American History

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