UC Santa Cruz

Forty-year anniversaries are sometimes celebrated with a “Ruby Jubilee.”1 In modifying the title of Dario Melossi and Massimo Pavarini’s The Prison and the Factory for a 21st-century audience, one can accept for clarity’s sake 40th Anniversary Edition in favor of Ruby Jubilee Edition (though it does have nice ring). In the 40 years since original publication, an historical development we now call “Mass Incarceration” materialized, hardly a matter for celebration, but as a tragic milestone the book’s latest edition serves to commemorate.