The criminalization of the unhoused, as well as the policies that create unhoused people go far beyond private prisons. As Ruth Gilmore and other abolitionists

The criminalization of the unhoused, as well as the policies that create unhoused people go far beyond private prisons. As Ruth Gilmore and other abolitionists have meticulously detailed over decades, governments on all levels have helped build a system in which enormous flows of money exist to unhouse, cage and ultimately diminish the lives of thousands of people in the united states. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag