The Alabama Solution recommended curriculum
Mass Incarceration: A Short Curriculum
A guided reading, listening, viewing, and action list for audiences who want to understand how mass incarceration came to be, what purpose it serves, and what it will take to resist it.
These works offer starting points, not a final syllabus. Use the filters to move by level, format, and theme, or follow the full sequence from 101 through 301.
Suggested pathways
Three ways through the curriculum.
101
Start with the basics.
Use this entry point to understand criminalization, incarceration, family separation, courts, and the lived consequences of state custody.
201
Follow the truth tellers.
Move into prison journalism, incarcerated writing, firsthand testimony, and the politics of visibility.
301
Study power and change.
Examine the system’s architecture, the role of policing and prosecution, and the practical work of building alternatives.
Interactive curriculum
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