Incarceration Nation
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Incarceration Nations
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Author : Baz Dreisinger
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2016-02-09
Incarceration Nations written by Baz Dreisinger and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with Social Science categories.
In this crucial study, named one of the Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016 and now in paperback, Baz Dreisinger goes behind bars in nine countries to investigate the current conditions in prisons worldwide. Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline program, Dreisinger looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of a world to which most are denied access, and a rethinking of one of America's most far-reaching global exports: the modern prison complex. From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to launching a creative writing class in an overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand, Dreisinger examines the world behind bars with equal parts empathy and intellect. She journeys to Jamaica to visit a prison music program, to Singapore to learn about approaches to prisoner reentry, to Australia to grapple with the bottom line of private prisons, to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement, and finally to the so-called model prisons of Norway. Incarceration Nations concludes with climactic lessons about the past, present, and future of justice.
Incarceration Nation
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Author : Peter K. Enns
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Incarceration Nation written by Peter K. Enns and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Political Science categories.
Incarceration Nation demonstrates that the US public played a critical role in the rise of mass incarceration in this country.
Incarceration Nation
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Author : Stephen J. Hartnett
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2003
Incarceration Nation written by Stephen J. Hartnett and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Collections categories.
Use of investigative poetics to describe the American justice and penal systems.
Mass Incarceration Nation
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Author : Jeffrey Bellin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
Mass Incarceration Nation written by Jeffrey Bellin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new account of the rise, persistence, and potential fall of mass incarceration - from a criminal justice insider.
Prison Nation
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Author : Paul Wright
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-23
Prison Nation written by Paul Wright and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Political Science categories.
Prison Nation is 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 prison privatization, class and race in the justice system, our quixotic drug war, the rarely discussed prison AIDS crisis and a judicial system that rewards mostly those with significant resources or the desire to name names. Correctional facilities have become a profitable growth industry, for companies like Wackenhut that run them and companies like Boeing that use cheap prison labor. With fascinating narratives, shocking tales and small stories of hope, Prison Nation paints a picture of a world many Americans know little or nothing about.
Captive Nation
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Author : Dan Berger
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014
Captive Nation written by Dan Berger and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Law categories.
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Hard Time Blues
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Author : Sasha Abramsky
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Hard Time Blues written by Sasha Abramsky and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Social Science categories.
In September 1996, fifty-three year old heroin addict Billy Ochoa was sentenced to 326 years in prison. His crime: committing $2100 worth of welfare fraud. Ochoa was sent to New Folsom supermax prison, joining thousands of other men who will spend the rest of their lives in California's teeming correctional facilities as a result of that state's tough Three Strikes law. His incarceration will cost over $20,000 a year until he dies. Hard Time Blues weaves together the story of the growth of the American prison system over the past quarter century primarily through the story of Ochoa, a career criminal who grew up in the barrios of post-World War II L.A. Ochoa, who had a long history of non-violent crimes committed to fund his drug habit, who cycled in and out of prison since the late 1960's, is a perfect example of how perennial misfits, rather than blood-soaked violent criminals, make up the majority of America's prisoners. This is also the story of the burgeoning careers of politicians such as former California Governor Pete Wilson, who rose to power on the "crime issue." Wilson, whose grandfather was a cop murdered by drug-runners in early twentieth century Chicago, scored a stunning come-from-behind re-election victory in 1994. In so doing, he came to epitomize the 1990s tough-on-crime politician. Award-winning journalist Sasha Abramsky uses immersion reportage to bring alive the political forces that have led America's prison and jail population to increase more than four fold in the past twenty years. Through the stories of Ochoa, Wilson, and others, he explores in devastating detail how the public has been manipulated into supporting mass incarceration during a period when crime rates have been steadily falling. Hard Time Blues deftly explores the War on Drugs, the Rockefeller Laws, the growth of the SuperMax Prisons, the climate of fear that led to laws such as Truth-in-Sentencing, and how the stunning repercussions of imprisoning two million citizens affect all of America. In the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground and Melissa Fay Greene's The Temple Bombing, Abramsky explores this new and dangerous fault-line in American society in a dramatic and compelling manner. From the opening courtroom scene through the final images behind the electrified fences of the nation's toughest, meanest prisons, Abramsky paints a grimly intimate portrait of the players and personalities behind this societal earthquake. Hard Time Blues combines a sense of history with a powerful narrative, to tell a story about issues and people that leads us to understand how The Land of the Free has become the world's largest prison nation.
Going Up The River
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Author : Joseph T. Hallinan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001-06-01
Going Up The River written by Joseph T. Hallinan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-01 with Social Science categories.
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest growth industry, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that has become entrenched without public awareness, much less voter consent. He answers, in an extraordinary way, the essential question: What, in human terms, is the price we pay? He has looked for answers to that question in every corner of the “prison nation,” a world far off the media grid — the America of struggling towns and cities left behind by the information age and desperate for jobs and money. Hallinan shows why the more prisons we build, the more prisoners we create, placating everyone at the expense of the voiceless prisoners, who together make up one of the largest migrations in our nation’s history.
Incarceration Nation
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Author : A B Petrucci
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-03
Incarceration Nation written by A B Petrucci and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-03 with categories.
Incarceration Nation is a quick read that will leave you wondering why you have never thought about the systematic problems with "criminal justice" in America. This book serves as a "Declaration" of a new form of criminal justice reform, unlike anything that usually passes as "reform." It is our hope and our prayer that after reading this book, you will be moved to do something about the desperate need for true criminal justice reform across the United States of America. One never knows who the next victim of the lopsided, unfair system will be.
Mass Incarceration Nation
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Author : Jeffrey Bellin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Mass Incarceration Nation written by Jeffrey Bellin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with Law categories.
The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors – historical, political, and institutional – that led to the current system of mass imprisonment. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the political and criminal justice systems. With accessible language and straightforward statistical analysis, former prosecutor turned law professor Jeffrey Bellin provides a formula for reform to return to the low incarceration rates that characterized the United States prior to the 1970s.