James Kilgore has written extensively on mass incarceration in the U.S. as well as on the politics and history of southern Africa. Below are links and pdfs for some of these writings.
Truthout
“Follow the Money: Hidden Investors Seek Big Money in Mass Incarceration, (with Brian Dolinar) http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29809-follow-the-money-invisible-investors-seek-big-bucks-in-mass-incarceration , April 9, 2015
“Jails: Time to Wake Up to Mass Incarceration in Your Neighborhood,” http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29322-jails-time-to-wake-up-to-mass-incarceration-in-your-neighborhood, March 4, 2015
“The New ‘Oppressed People’s Movement’: Can the Tide of Resistance Continue?” http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28688-the-new-oppressed-peoples-movement-can-the-tide-of-resistance-continue, January 23, 2015
“Five Corporations You’ve Never Heard of Are Making Millions from Mass Incarceration,” http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28501-five-corporations-you-ve-never-heard-of-making-millions-from-mass-incarceration, January 19, 2015
“Prop 47, Immigration Reform and More: The Contradictory Road of “Reforming” Mass Incarceration,” http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27881-prop-47-immigration-reform-and-more-the-contradictory-road-of-reforming-mass-incarceration, December 10, 2014
“What the Movement Against Mass Incarceration Can Learn From the Struggle for Climate Justice,” http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26398-what-the-movement-against-mass-incarceration-can-learn-from-the-struggle-for-climate-justice, September 24, 2014
“Time to Stop Criminalizing Immigrants,” August 7, 2014
“The Spread of Electronic Monitoring: No Quick Fix for Mass Incarceration,” , July 30, 2014,
“Tackling Debtors’ Prisons: Reflecting on the Death of Eileen DiNino,” June 20, 2014
“Mass Incarceration: Are the Feds Really Charting a New Path?” March 7, 2014.
Counterpunch:
The Repackaging of Mass Incarceration, June 6, 2014,
Security Giant Admits $38 Million Fraud 11/22/13
Myth of Prison Slave Labor Camps in the U.S. 8/9/13
The Terrifying World of Electronic Monitoring 8/23/13
Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers 1/9/12
The New Operation Wetback 8/4/11
Dissent
After the Marikana Massacre 1/14/13
The Politics of Theft – Economic Inequality and the Forgotten Work Force Summer 2012
Jon Yount: A Man Transformed (with Teresa Barnes) 6/6/12
Writings on Electronic Monitoring:
“Progress or more of the same? Electronic monitoring and parole in the age of mass incarceration,”(full pdf) Critical Criminology, November, available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-012-9165-0
“The Rise of Electronic Monitoring in the Criminal Justice System” Counterpunch, April 30 at: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/30/the-rise-of-electronic-monitoring-in-criminal-justice/
Dissent article on EM 2012: “Would you like an ankle bracelet with that?” Dissent magazine Winter 2012
“Electronic Monitoring: Some Causes for Concern” Prison Legal News 2012
Visit my website on electronic monitoring: voiceofthemonitored.com
Further writings on mass incarceration:
Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order “Confronting Prison Slave Labor Camps and Other Myths” August 28, 2013
Labor Studies Journal 37:4 December 2012 – Mass Incarceration and Working Class Interests: Which Side Are the Unions On?
Beyond the ‘New Jim Crow’: Talk at University of Wyoming Law School, Feb. 2013
Review of The New Jim Crow and Texas Tough-Against the Current 2012
Articles on Teaching in Prison
Bringing Freire behind the walls Radical Teacher 90 May 2011
Teaching Globalization to My Fellow Prisoners-Radical Teacher May 2013
Unpublished Reflections on Writing
My writing evolution-James Kilgore
James’ Prison Poems
Not So Serious-A Poetry Collection