Learning from these brilliant thinkers— not less than an old dream coming true for me—was a necessary reminder of the importance of documenting & engaging seriously with the experiences of those who have been punished for their dissent & work supporting those most marginalized..

It’s significant not only b/c it’s so challenging to get access to legal details & personal experiences that this book records but also because we need to make sense of the state of our nation-state, what it has always been, what it has been since 2014 & what it is becoming…2/

& It’s significant not only so we can be led by the expansive ideas, imagination, & courage of political prisoners but also so we can grasp quotidian techniques of carcerality— its distortions of time & space, it’s ability to alienate & its reliance on punitive social orders 3/3