American Gulag Inside U. S. Immigration Prisons

Name: American Gulag Inside U. S. Immigration Prisons
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ISBN: 9780520246690

ISBN-10: 0520246691

ISBN-13: 9780520246690

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mark Dow

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Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In "American Gulag, "prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities. Journalist Mark Dow's on-the-ground reporting brings to light documented cases of illegal beatings and psychological torment, prolonged detention, racism, and inhumane conditions. Intelligent, impassioned, and unlike anything that has been written on the topic, this gripping work of investigative…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.232



Prologue: "Let This Be Home"



Invisibility, Intimidation, and the INS



September 11: Secrecy, Disruption, and Continuity



Another World, Another Nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center



"Enforcement Means You're Brutal"



The World's First Private Prison



"Keeping Quiet Means Deny": A Hunger Strike in Queens



The Art of Jailing



"Criminal Aliens" and Criminal Agents



Siege, Shackles, Climate, Design



"Speak to Every Media": Resistance, Repression, and the Making of a Prisoner



Good and Evil in New England



Out West: Philosophy and Despair



Dead Time



Mariel Cubans: Abandoned, Again and Again Acknowledgments Notes Selected


Bibliography


Index