We're joined by Liat Ben-Moshe to discuss the largest instance of carceral abolition in modern American history: the closure, in the 20th century, of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals.

Dr. Ben-Moshe is an Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. Buy the book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/decarcerating-disability

Our thanks to Death Panel's community-run reading group, which meets Sundays in our Discord server, and spent several weeks this year on a close reading of Liat's book. You can join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

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(Episode transcript forthcoming)