Foreword - Ruth Wilson Gilmore Introduction: The Jail Is Everywhere - Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept 1. A Quiet Jail Boom - Jasmine Heiss 2. The Long Fight Against Jail Expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois - An Interview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails 3. County Jails and the Immigrant Dragnet - Silky Shah 4. Decarcerating Sacramento: Confronting Jail Expansion in California's Capital - Liz Blum 5. "Not One More Dollar Goes into This Jail": Becoming Abolitionists in Upstate New York - Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier 6. "You Start with Where You Are and with the People Who Are Around You": Organizing Against Jails Across Tennessee - An Interview with Dawn Harrington and Gicola Lane of Free Hearts 7.
Carceral Communities: Local Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex in the Mountain South - Amelia Kirby 8. Communities Over Cages--the (Ongoing) Campaign to Close the Atlanta City Jail - Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware 9. Federal Courts, FEMA Dollars, and Local Elections in the Struggle Against Phase III in New Orleans - An Interview with Lexi Peterson-Burge of Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition 10. Real Solutions: Organizing for Alternatives to a Big New Jail in a Small Republican County - Sarah Westover and Matt Witt 11. Lessons from the No New Jails Network and the New York City Struggle Against Carceral Feminism - An Interview with Mon Mohapatra of the No New Jails Network Conclusion: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration - Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept Acknowledgments Appendix: "The County Jail" - Stanley Boone.