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Prison Nation The Warehousing of America's Poor

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ISBN-10: 0415935385

ISBN-13: 9780415935388

Edition: 2003

Authors: Paul Wright, Tara Herivel

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Prison Nationis a distant dispatch from a foreign and forbidden place--the world of America's prisons. Written by prisoners, social critics and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation testifies to the current state of America's prisoners' living conditions and political concerns. These concerns are not normally the concerns of most Americans, but they should be. From substandard medical care the inadequacy of resources for public defenders to the death penalty, the issues covered in this volume grow more urgent every day. Articles by outstanding writers such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noam Chomsky, Mark Dow, Judy Green, Tracy Huling and Christian Parenti chronicle the injustices of…    
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Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Warehousing of America's Poor
The Accused Get What the System Doesn't Pay For
Absolute Power, Absolute Corruption
Color Bind
Capital Crimes
Drug Policy as Social Control
"Victims' Rights" as a Stalking-horse for State Repression
Two Million Swept Away
Swept Away
An American Seduction
Deadly Nostalgia
Secrecy, Power, Indefinite Detention
Trapped by the System
Relocation Blues
Making a Buck off the Prisoner's Back
Making Slave Labor Fly
The Politics of Prison Labor
Work Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio
Prison Jobs and Free Market Unemployment
The Private Prison Industry
Bailing Out Private Jails
Juvenile Crime Pays--But At What Cost?
University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry
Campus Activism Defeats Multinational's Prison Profiteering
Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida
Malign Neglect: Prison Medicine
The New Bedlam
Wreaking Medical Mayhem on Women Prisoners in Washington State
Hepatitis C
Dying for Profits
"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years. He Didn't Sentence Me to Death."
FDOC Hazardous to Prisoners' Health
Bill Clinton's Blood Trails
Rape, Racism, and Repression
The Restraint Chair
Cowboys and Prisoners
Deliberate Indifference
Corcoran
Guarding Their Silence
Our Sisters' Keepers
Not Part of My Sentence
"Make It Hard for Them"
Anatomy of a Whitewash
Sentenced to the Backwaters of Greene County, PA
The Bars to Prison Litigation
Prison Litigation 1950-2000
Barring the Federal Courthouses to Prisoners
The Limits of Law
Contributors
About Prison Legal News
Index
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