[Peace] (virtual) book release and discussion / James Kilgore's new book / January 18, 2022; 12:30pm-2pm

[Karen Medina]

Dear Peace List,

I thought some of you might be interested in this book and this event.
Sincerely, Karen Medina

Book release: "Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the
Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration" by James Kilgore
Who: Please join James Kilgore and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Time: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM CST
What: A virtual book release and urgent discussion of punitive carceral
technologies and Kilgore's new book.

(author) James Kilgore is co-founder of FirstFollowers, a reentry
organization in Champaign, IL and is the author of five books, including
the award-winning Understanding Mass Incarceration.  // [another bio] James
Kilgore is an activist, researcher, and writer based in Urbana, Illinois,
where he has lived since paroling from prison in 2009. He is the director
of the Challenging E-Carceration project at MediaJustice and the
co-director of FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign, Illinois. He is
the author of five books, including Understanding E-Carceration and the
award-winning Understanding Mass Incarceration (both from The New Press).

Ruth Wilson Gilmore,  Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and
Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City
University of New York Graduate Center, co-founder of many grassroots
organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical
Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network.
Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus,
Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press) and the
forthcoming book Change Everything (Haymarket)
* Get tickets for the event from eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-e-carceration-a-book-launch-tickets-238460029367?fbclid=IwAR2uO-KHhnzC1o6YLgGoL-gNxHhVzO8i7Zv2I60qVIQvmtpsOl9i6wYTxUs
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// Register
through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of
the event. This event will also be recorded and live captioning will be
provided. // "This event is sponsored by The New Press and Haymarket Books.
While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are
able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and
programming work."
* or here is a link to the YouTube event / Scheduled for Jan. 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2JaRJWcFM

More about the book:
https://thenewpress.com/books/understanding-e-carceration
"Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance
State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration" by James Kilgore
Published by The New Press; the event is also Haymarket Books event as well
as the New Press's event.
Available: January 2022
Paperback
7 x 7 , 256 pages
ISBN: 978-1-62097-614-2
Also available as an e-book

You can purchase the book from:
bookshop.org [Order a copy of Understanding E-carceration:
https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781620976142 ]
Barnes and Noble
Amazon

Praise for the book, Understanding E-Carceration
“An incisive, thoroughly researched, and utterly frightening investigation
into how technology, posing as reform, is expanding our prison nation into
systems of hybrid punishment.”
—Victoria Law, author of Prison by Any Other Name and “Prisons Make us
Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
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