State Crime (Jan 2024)

Captive Maternals vs. Compradors: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

  • Joy James

DOI
https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.12.2.0146
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. 146 – 165

Abstract

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Theorizing Captive Maternal Agency and Comprador Betrayals through the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and Philadelphia Judge Lucretia Clemmons, with a focus on the denial of civil and human rights within the US penal/legal system.