Book Review: Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town

Davis AY (2011) Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press.

Eason JM (2019) Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation. University of Chicago Press.

Gilmore RW (2007) Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Vol. 21). University of California Press.

Opsal T Malin SA (2020) Prisons as LULUs: Understanding the parallels between prison proliferation and environmental injustices. Sociological Inquiry 90(3): 579–602.

Pellow DN (2025) What Is Critical Environmental Justice? John Wiley & Sons.

Perdue RT Sanchagrin K (2016) Imprisoning Appalachia: The socio-economic impacts of prison development. Journal of Appalachian Studies 22(2): 210–223.

Schept J (2022) Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia. New York University Press.

Wright EO (2020) Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso Books.