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Against Equality : Prisons Will Not Protect You by Ryan Conrad; Against Equality (Organization) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the third and final installation of its trilogy, Against Equality once again demonstrates that another queer and radical world is possible. The essays in this volume take a critical stance against the prison industrial complex and the system of inequality and violence perpetuated by hate crimes legislation, formally passed in the United States in 2009 as the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Prisons Will Not Protect You, a compilation of archived work, is located at the difficult and traumatic point where the violence of the state against queer and LGBT people colludes with the violence we are always trying to escape. The pieces here question the gay community's fealty to the prison industrial complex, arguing that hate crimes legislation, which enhances penalties and can even be used to bring in the death penalty, only serves to funnel massive numbers of people into prisons with increasing lengths of time served and the use of tortuous methods like solitary confinement. This has significant racial and economic implications in a country that houses five percent of the world's population but nearly a quarter of the world's prisoners and where prisons

Who reads Against Equality : Prisons Will Not Protect You?

Author

Ryan Conrad; Against Equality (Organization)

Publisher

Against Equality Publishing Collective

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780615678924

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.34 / 5 (80 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14