The Warehouse

The largest system of incarceration in human history

Today an excerpt from the new book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration (PM Press) by anti-carceral author and activist James Kilgore and illustrator Vic Liu . The book is a clear and concise overview and granular look at the sheer brutal scope of "the largest system of incarceration in human history," and the economic and political machinations that have gotten us to this low punishing point. As it notes by way of introduction: The US incarcerates more people than any other country, incarcerating roughly 20% of the entire global prison population. By contrast, the US populatio

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