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An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Book
Rethinking the American Prison Movement
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Authors: Dan Berger
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-30 - Publisher: Routledge

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Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. D
The Big House
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Pages: 255
Authors: Stephen D. Cox
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-03 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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""The Big House" is America's idea of the prison - a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in
Locked Up
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A history of the United States prison system and its many changes over the years.
America Is the Prison
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Lee Bernstein
Categories: Social Science
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In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broa