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Criminal injustice : confronting the prison crisis / edited by Elihu Rosenblatt.

Title: Criminal injustice : confronting the prison crisis / edited by Elihu Rosenblatt.
Publication: Boston, MA : South End Press, ©1996.

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Rosenblatt, Elihu.

Description

374 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The fortress economy: the economic role of the U.S. prison system / Alexander C. Lichtenstein and Michael A. Kroll -- Gardens of the law: the role of prisons in capitalist society / Joel Olson -- The criminalization of poverty / Sabina Virgo -- The labor of doing time / Julie Browne -- The politics of super incarceration / Mike Davis -- In critical condition: abuse, neglect, and poor health care in U.S. prisons -- The prison discipline study: exposing the myth of humane imprisonment in the United States -- Legislating repression: the federal crime bill and the anti-terrorism and effective death penalty act / C. Stone Brown -- Resistance at Lexington / Laura Whitehorn -- Building bridges / Lin Elliot -- Prisoners respond to AIDS / Judy Greenspan -- Medical treatment at Chowchilla / Joann Walker -- Women in society: statistics on the condition of women -- Behind the walls: the history and current reality of women's imprisonment / Nancy Kurshan -- The politics of confinement and resistance: the imprisonment of women / Karlene Faith -- Sisters inside: prisons and social control / Kinesis staff -- Women's control unit / Silvia Baraldini [and others] -- Death penalty facts and figures: exploding the myths -- The case against the death penalty / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Teetering on the brink between death and life / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Killing justice: government misconduct and the death penalty / Death Penalty Information Center -- Prisons as concentration camps: it can't happen here -- or can it? / José Lopez -- Speaking truth to power: political prisoners in the United States / Dhoruba Bin Wahad -- White North American political prisoners / Rita D. Brown [and others] -- Native-American religious freedom under attack: an interview with Little Rock Reed / Deborah Garlin -- Supermax prisons: high-tech dungeons and modern-day torture / Erica Thompson and Jan Susler -- The crime of punishment: Pelican Bay maximum security prison / Corey Weinstein and Eric Cummins -- Lexington Prison high security unit: U.S. political prison / Mary O'Melveny -- Shackled justice: Florence -- the cutting edge of social control / Robert Perkinson.

ISBN

0896085392
9780896085398
0896085406
9780896085404

LCCN

96032716

OCLC

35096070
SCSB-10308626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library