The term “incarceration” often conjures up a familiar motif. Popular television and digital media programming such as _Oz_, _Prison Break_, and _Orange Is the New Black_ rely on a commonsense understanding of prison as being a place that holds the vile and immoral. According to narratives drawn from these shows, prison is not a place that is violent because people are locked in cages for more hours than they are not, denied basic human rights, and forcibly removed from their communities; rather, the programs reinforce the notion that people housed within prison are some of the most violent creatures on the planet and thus create an environment of extreme violence. While the entertainment version of incarceration is filled with drama and a clear sense of hero and villain, the reality of incarceration is quite the opposite: mundane and layered in nuance that very often blurs the distinctions between right and wrong. Similar to entertainment, the discussion of incarceration has become very popular within academia. While there has been a long history of rigorous academic engagement with prisons in contemporary capitalism (most notably the 1998 “Critical Resistance” conference in Berkeley, California), unfortunately, too much of the current discussion pertaining to incarceration...