Captivity Beyond PrisonsToday the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a fix for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants. Starting in the 1990s, the United States saw tremendous expansion in the number of imprisoned (im)migrants, specifically Latinas os.