Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration

Liat Ben-Moshe provides case studies that show how prison abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Her analysis of lived experience, history, and culture charts a way out of a failing system of incarceration.