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Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons. By Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 264. $35.00 (cloth); $23.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780190949150.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2021

Cara Curtis
Cara Curtis*
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PhD Candidate, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , August 2021 , pp. 436 - 439
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

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1 Tasha Cobbs, vocalist, “Break Every Chain,” by Will Reagan, recorded June 2012, track 7 on Grace, Motown Gospel (EGS), compact disc.

2 Examples include Dubler, Joshua, Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison (London: Picador, 2014)Google Scholar; Erzen, Tanya, God in Captivity: The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017)Google Scholar; Graber, Jennifer, The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Levad, Amy, Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Book-length examples here include classics such as Davis, Angela Y., Are Prisons Obsolete? (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003)Google Scholar, and Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)Google Scholar. Dubler and Lloyd also cite a wide variety of shorter anti-carceral writings and initiatives; the book is useful in part as an archive of these resources.