A Green New Deal for Decarceration
To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.
Brett Story is an assistant professor at Ryerson University and a documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on the carceral geographies. She is the director of the film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, and the author of Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.