Foreword / Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Introduction: The jail is everywhere / Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept
A quiet jail boom / Jasmine Heiss
The long fight against jail expansion in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois / An interview with James Kilgore of Build Programs Not Jails
County jails and the immigrant dragnet / Silky Shah
Decarcerating Sacramento: Confronting jail expansion in California's capital / Liz Blum
"Not one more dollar goes into this jail": Becoming abolitionists in upstate New York / Andrew J. Pragacz and Kevin Revier
"You start with where you are and with the people who are around you": Organizing jails across Tennessee / an interview with Dawn Harrington and Gicola Lane of Free Hearts
Carceral communities: Local resistance to the prison-industrial complex in the mountain South / Amelia Kirby
the (ongoing) campaign to close the Atlanta City Jail /
Xochitl Bervera and Wes Ware
Federal Courts, FEMA dollars, and local elections in the struggle against phase III in New Orleans / an interview with Lexi Peterson-Burge of New Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition
Real solutions: Organizing alternatives to a big new jail in a small republican county / Sarah Westover and Matt Witt
Lessons from the no new jails network and the New York City struggle against carceral feminism / an interview with Mon Mohapatra of the No New Jails Network
Conclusion: Fighting the new geography of mass incarceration / Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept.