Warehouse Prison Disposal of the New Dangerous Class

Name: Warehouse Prison Disposal of the New Dangerous Class
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ISBN: 9780195330472

ISBN-10: 0195330471

ISBN-13: 9780195330472

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Irwin, Barbara Owen

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While prison populations in the U.S. increased almost tenfold from 1980 to 2000, studies of men's prisons have dwindled. For this reason, eminent criminologist John Irwin was impelled to examine imprisonment during this punitive period. He chose Solano State Prison as the site for his study. Solano represents a typical prison where new, popular forms of technology and prison regimens have been instituted. The facility houses up to 6,000 prisoners at middle-security levels--II and III in California's range of custodies. (The highly punitive supermax prisons are level IV.) Irwin found that prison planners and administrators have developed a system that keeps its 6,000 prisoners almost…

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List price: $119.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English