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The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
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Lois Ahrens |
One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going ev… |
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The battle behind the wire
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Cheryl Benard |
Although prisoner of war and detainee operations ultimately tend to become quite extensive, military planners and policymakers have repeatedly treated such operations as an afterthought. In reality, … |
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The big house in a small town
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Eric J. Williams |
This work is an examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy. The prison boo… |
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Unusually cruel
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Marc Morjé Howard |
The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the… |
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Do prisons make us safer?
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Russell Sage Foundation |
"Do Prisons Make Us Safer? asks whether it makes sense to maintain such a large and costly prison system. The contributors expand the scope of previous analyses to Include a number of underexplored d… |
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Challenging the prison-industrial complex
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Stephen J. Hartnett |
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners inste… |
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Gang of One
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Gary Mulgrew |
"Gang of one is the remarkable true story of one man's journey from a Glasgow orphanage to a notorious gang-infested prison in Texas. Driven by his desire to return to his son in England and haunted … |
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Inside private prisons
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Lauren-Brooke Eisen |
"When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand … |
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Born, not raised
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Susan Madden Lankford |
"In the final volume of her trilogy on interlinked social issues, [the author] explores the troubled psyches of young people incarcerated in Juvenile Hall. The perspectives of psychiatrists, neurosci… |
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Escaping the Prism… Fade to Black
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Jalil Muntaqim |
>*Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black* is a collection of Jalil’s poetry and essays, written from behind the bars of Attica prison. Combining the personal and the political, these texts afford readers… |
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Corruption officer
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Gary L. Heyward |
"In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and devastating account of his descent into criminal life, smuggling contraband inside the infa… |
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States of siege
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Bert Useem |
This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the infamous 1981 bloodbath at the New Mexico Penitentiary. The mos… |
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All things censored
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Mumia Abu-Jamal |
"Writes on a host of topics, including the ironies that abound within the U.S. prison system, the consequences of those ironies for us all, and his own case." -- Jacket. |
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Ghosts of Alcatraz
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Kathryn Vercillo |
159 p. : 23 cm |
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