The US currently has the largest prison population on the planet. The author traces the rise of the neoliberal carceral state through a series of turning points in US history including the Watts insurrection in 1965, the Attica uprising in 1971, the Los Angeles revolt in 1992, and events in post-Katrina New Orleans in 2005.
"Incarcerating the Crisis persuasively enriches our understanding of the origins of mass incarceration in the U.S., providing compelling evidence that its emergence was a response to the freedom struggles of the twentieth century."
