Episode 316: Carceral Warfare

We welcome Dr. Orisamni Burton to the show to talk through the history of American prisons as technologies of counterinsurgency, George Jackson, MKUltra, and his forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.

Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970 – 1978 

New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners