Warehousing the American

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American prisons today are real-life sites of body horror. In popular culture, body horror has roots in gothic literature and centers our attention on the disturbing aspects of our embodiedness or creatureliness. Discussing it within the context of what she terms the Haunting Prison, Tea Fredriksson argues that body horror “tends to focus on the […]

David S. D’Amato is an attorney, businessman, and independent researcher. He is a Policy Advisor to the Future of Freedom Foundation and a regular opinion contributor to The Hill. His writing has appeared in Forbes, Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, RealClearPolitics, The Washington Examiner, and many other publications, both popular and scholarly. His work has been cited by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, among others.