Against Inevitability

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For example, Gilmore notes that few people asked why California prison growth came to a halt in 2011 after over twenty years of expansion. These themes challenge the notion that prisons are I inevitable i , a deliberate fiction created to naturalize prisons and one that Gilmore's work methodically disassembles. 4 Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Mothers Reclaiming Our Children", in I Golden Gulag Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California i (Berkeley University of California Press, 2007), 181-240;Gilmore, "Public Enemies and Private Intellectuals Apartheid USA", in I Abolition Geography i , 78-91;Gilmore, "You Have Dislodged a Boulder Mothers and Prisoners in the Post Keynesian California Landscape", in I Abolition Geography i , 355-409. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of American Quarterly is the property of Johns Hopkins University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)