Abstract
Since the 1970s, exponential growth in the use of incarceration in the United States, combined with racial targeting in the use of state surveillance and punishment, has marked the prison as a primary site of contemporary black liberation struggles. Black women and girls, as well as other low-income people of color, have been particularly devastated by prison expansion and the accompanying withdrawal of resources from community infrastructure and economic supports for low-income families, in part in order to fund costly law-enforcement and prison budgets.1
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