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University of North Carolina Press Captive Consumers: Hunger, Violence, and Inequality in American Prison Food (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Name: Captive Consumers: Hunger, Violence, and Inequality in American Prison Food (Justice, Power, and Politics)
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Much of what happens inside America’s prisons remains hidden from public view, and the food doled out to incarcerated people is no exception. In Captive Consumers, Chin Jou exposes a system of mistreatment and scandal surrounding prison food: across the country, those behind bars live with chronic hunger, eat foods contrary to their religious beliefs and medical needs, and develop foodborne illnesses at alarming rates. At the same time, corrections systems and prison food services weaponize nutritional claims to protect themselves from charges that the incarcerated are starving. Using a wealth of sources from untapped historical records to prison newspapers, Jou excavates the voices of the incarcerated and shows that prison food dehumanizes the imprisoned, compounds racial and class inequalities, and induces more violence—ultimately making carceral institutions more dangerous. But this compelling book also illuminates how people behind bars have reasserted their identities, resourcefulness, and humanity through self-prepared food even as prison food services profit from lucrative, taxpayer-funded contracts that reward cost-cutting over care. If US corrections systems continue to perpetuate physical and psychological violence through food, Jou argues, Americans will suffer not just wasted tax dollars but the cost of bringing traumatized, ailing, and hungry formerly incarcerated people back into society.

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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1469693143
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Americas > United States
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 September 2026
Listed Since: 13 April 2026

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