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Gates of injustice : the crisis in America's prisons / Alan Elsner.
- Title
- Gates of injustice : the crisis in America's prisons / Alan Elsner.
- Author
- Elsner, Alan.
- Publication
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Financial Times Prentice Hall, c2004.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 264 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This work is an expose of the U.S. prison system. it tells how more than 2 million Americans came to be incarcerated, what it's really like on the inside, and how a giant "prison-industrial complex" promotes imprisonment over other solutions. The author takes the reader inside "supermax" prisons that deny inmates human contact and reveals official corruption and brutality within U.S. jails. The book also teaches how prisons help to spread infectious diseases throughout society, one of the ways the prison crisis touches even those who have never had a brush with the law.
- Series Statement
- Financial Times Prentice Hall books
- Uniform Title
- Financial Times Prentice Hall books.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The second toughest sheriff in America -- Becoming a Prison Nation -- Entering the Gates -- The Vulnerable -- The Sanity of the System -- An Unhealthy Situtation -- Women behind Bars -- Supermax -- Short-Term Problems -- Money, Money, Money -- After Prison -- Some Modest Suggestions.
- ISBN
- 0131427911
- LCCN
- ^^2004043293
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library