Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

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

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalizati...