Beyond Punishment: A Guide to Mass Incarceration helps readers understand the history, structures, and lived impacts of mass incarceration in the United States. Produced by the Applied Cartooning Lab in collaboration with Freedom Classrooms, this comic-style guide combines clear visual storytelling with historical context, personal accounts, and examination of how systems of punishment operate, as well as emerging approaches beyond incarceration. Like other graphic guides from the Applied Cartooning Lab, Beyond Punishment uses comics to support teaching and learning by presenting complex social systems in an accessible, engaging format for a wide range of audiences.
About the Guide
Format: Illustrated comic book
Length: 32 pages/Full Color
ISBN: 978-0-9995123-7-1
Purpose: To demystify the structures of punishment and offer pathways toward informed action
Creators: James Sturm and Graham Chaffee are the cartoonists who wrote and drew Beyond Punishment in consultation with the project’s many stakeholders.
Artwork: Graham Chaffee