Gates of Injustice The Crisis in America's Prisons

Name: Gates of Injustice The Crisis in America's Prisons
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ISBN: 9780131881792

ISBN-10: 0131881795

ISBN-13: 9780131881792

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: Alan Elsner

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Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be incarcerated; what it's really like on the inside; what it's like for the families left on the outside; and how an enormous "prison-industrial complex" has grown to support and promote imprisonment in place of virtually every other alternative.Reuters journalist Alan Elsner shows how prisons really work, how race-based gangs are able to control institutions and prey on weaker inmates, and how an epidemic of abuse and brutality has exploded across American prisons. Readers will discover the plight of 300,000 mentally ill people in prisons, virtually abandoned…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: FT Press
Publication date: 1/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Second Toughest Sheriff in America



Becoming a Prison Nation



Entering the Gates



The Vulnerable



The Sanity of the System



An Unhealthy Situation



Women Behind Bars



Supermax



Short-Term Problems



Money, Money, Money



After Prison



Some Modest Suggestions


Endnotes


Index