Maya Schenwar is the editor-in-chief of Truthout. She is co-author (with Victoria Law) of Prison by Any Other Name as well as the author of Locked Down, Locked Out and the co-editor of the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? She lives in Chicago. Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and the co-author (with Maya Schenwar) of Prison by Any Other Name as well as the author of Resistance Behind Bars and co-editor of Don't Leave Your Friends Behind. She is a co-founder of NYC Books Through Bars and lives in New York.
Praise for Prison by Any Other Name Prison by Any Other Name reminds us powerfully' soberingly' and unequivocally that we simply can't end today's carceral crisis by calling for reforms that are still' fundamentally' punitive. Yes' we must reduce the number of people confined to prisons and jails. But' if we then find ourselves advocating other forms of coercion' criminalization' and control that merely purport to be more humane solutions to the deeply human fallout of poverty' addiction' and trauma' we will miss this opportunity to achieve a more just society--the society we desperately need. --Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar have gifted us a clear-eyed appraisal of the many ways elite 'prison reform' has actually expanded coercive punishment. Prison by Any Other Name is essential reading for anyone serious about ending mass incarceration. --Dan Berger, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era