Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Download or read book Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration written by Doran Larson and published by Law, Culture, and the Humaniti. This book was released on 2017 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places prison witness at the center of discussions of the human experience of law and order, and of the nature of the rights-bearing person. Readings of canonical and contemporary writers facing incarceration yield abiding literary tropes that chart the path from institutional abjection toward the minimal threshold of personhood.