RT Article
T1 Rewriting Torture: Manufacturing a Primer of Abuse in US Domestic Prisons
JF Social justice
VO 43
IS 4
SP 44
OP 68
A1 Phillips, Susan A.
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174715461X
AB A college-level critical pedagogy project confirms that human rights reporting can play a role in prison abolition as opposed to reform. By writing an altered version of the ICRC torture papers, students compared US prison torture in domestic and military sites, confirmed the application of a torture label to US prisons, decentered the classroom, and shifted foundational categories, including those around a capital crime. Creating counter-narratives partly based on the perspectives of the prisoners themselves extends the radical potential of human rights work. When combined with critical pedagogy, human rights writing can help create anti-carceral praxis.
K1 International Committee of the Red Cross
K1 Human Rights
K1 War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
K1 Corrupt practices in criminal justice administration
K1 Prison violence
K1 Torture
K1 Criminal Justice Education