ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter explores how these same effects of convictism continue to target individuals after they leave prison. Laws that limit the access of “ex-cons” from jobs, residences, and voting are an effect of the same discourse that inhibits prison education. Using examples from ex-con and professional wrestler Hassan “MVP” Assad’s TEDx talk, it discusses the fallacy of prison being called “paying your debt to society.” Further, it discusses how this understanding implicates the ability to contest social understanding of criminality and the criminal justice system. Instead of resisting neoliberalism, it should be turned against itself. By utilizing the same neoliberal frameworks that promote it, convictism can be exposed and opposed as a fundamentally unfair and harmful system.
