Bang-up and Smash: Women’s prisons, bail hostels and probation

Description

Bang-up and Smash is an overview of women’s prisons in the UK and a political analysis of their physical and ideological construction.

From the moment of arrest, to coming home, Bang-up and Smash critically engages with the procedures, concepts and apparatus the state relies on, and the economics behind the expansion of the prison industrial complex.

Bang-up and Smash  is a practical guide to women’s prisons in the UK, and a rallying call to attack.   Solidarity is a weapon, and abolition is not enough…