Incarceration Nation

Description from DukeHub

Investigates the causes, consequences, experience and potential transformation of US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Stimulates critical thought, discussion, and research on alternative ethical positions on criminal justice policies, such as immigration detention, the war on drugs, prison privatization and mandatory sentencing, which have created and maintain the unequal distribution of mass incarceration. Examines the US carceral state as an institution of stratification that exacerbates social problems it is charged with tackling, prevents social mobility for the most marginalized, and solidifies disadvantages based on age, class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and citizenship.

Skills

No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethical"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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