«Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish. This is a measure of how difficult it is to envision a social order that does not rely on the threat of sequestering people in dreadful places designed to separate them from their
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Western North Carolina has been long well known for its climate, luring for many years a continuous stream of sick, infirm, and hypochondriac migrants into the region. During the late nineteenth century, as the tuberculosis epidemic was at its height, it was dubbed the «Land of the Sky» and then «Switzerland of America» by renowned
