Join us Wednesday, March 5th for our next Cactus Book Club. We’re thrilled to welcome back Milwaukee Freedom Fund, who will lead the discussion on The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Judah Schept. “Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration…this text brings together an incredible range of knowledge and experience from jail fights across the country. It maps this new terrain, foregrounding the hard-forged analyses of anti-jail organizers themselves as they take us through campaigns that, while appearing local, are at the new center of the carceral state.”
Recommended bookseller: La Revo Books (via their Bookshop)
Milwaukee Freedom Fund is a Black-led abolitionist organization that is part of a movement to end pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration.Through community political education, releasing people from pre-trial detention, and supporting abolition efforts. We pay bail as a direct action toward bail abolition. Milwaukee Freedom Fund builds on a legacy of Black liberation and fights for a humane and just future.