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Handing Over the Keys
Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice
Linda Mussell (Author)
9780774871266
Hardback, published 30 April 2026
322 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.561 kg
Generations of Indigenous people have experienced the injustices wrought by institutional confinement. Widespread criticism calls Canadian prisons the new residential schools and Australian ones a national tragedy. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the government itself has suggested Māori may be the most incarcerated people in the world. Handing over the Keys compares three countries with enduring records of confining Indigenous people. Intergenerational imprisonment – the legacies of institutional confinement in an array of settings – leaves a long shadow. Linda Mussell seeks the keys to transformative change through a rigorous policy analysis and interviews with frontline practitioners, policy professionals, and people who have lived experience of imprisonment. Her goal is policy transformation to address both Indigenous hyper-imprisonment and intergenerational impacts. What do people closest to this issue think? What should the state do? This urgently needed study proposes ways to hand over the keys that unlock the doors of confinement for future generations.
1 Introduction 2 The Context of Carceral Injustice 3 An Intergenerational Scope 4 Narratives of Confinement and Resistance 5 Challenging Dominant Understandings 6 Pathways Forward 7 Moving Past Reform 8 Conclusion Appendices Glossary Notes; References; Index