Introduction

Chapter 1: Roots: Challenging Prison Slavery and Political Repression, 1865-1940

Chapter 2: Rights: Fighting Prison Jim Crow, 1940-1968

Chapter 3: Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years, 1968-1972

Chapter 4: Radicalism: Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison Managerialism, 1973-1980

Chapter 5: Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison Movement, 1980-1998

Conclusion

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of an important and transformational ongoing struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential networks, strong alliances and coalitions, difficult challenges and obstacles, major successes and failures, and the movement's lasting effects on the country.