Table of Contents
Introduction: Capturing Appalachia 1
Part I Extraction and Disposal
1 "This Is a Place for Trash": Mountaintop Removal, Waste, and Prisons 37
2 Wars, Laws, Landscapes: Producing the Carceral Conjuncture 65
Part II Profit and Order
3 "What a Magnificent Field for Capitalists!": Convict Labor, Carceral Growth, and Craft Tourism 91
4 The Company Town: Remaking Social Order in the Coalfields 120
Part III Carceral Social Reproduction
5 Planning the Prison: Development, Revenue, and Ideology 155
6 "To Bring a Future and Hope to Our Children": Renovating Education, Identity, and Work 181
7 The Plot of Abolition: Solidarity Politics across Scale, Strategy, and Prison Walls, with Sylvia Ryerson 199
Conclusion: The Long, Violent History and the Struggle for the Future 227
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 241
Bibliography 275
Index 303
About the Author 321