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Understanding mass incarceration : a people's guide to the key civil rights struggle of our time /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kilgore, James William, 1947- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, The, 2015.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > United States > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > History.
Alternatives to imprisonment > United States.
Civil rights > United States.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: The basics of mass incarceration. A snapshot of the system
  • Building popular support for growing the prison system
  • "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" : the rise of mass incarceration
  • Part two: The many faces of "tough on crime." The war on drugs
  • The war on immigrants
  • The death of rehabilitation
  • Jail : the local face of mass incarceration
  • The school-to-prison pipeline
  • Part three: The gendered threads of punishment. The folks left behind
  • Women's prisons
  • Part four: Prison profiteers. Private prisons
  • Incarceration, Inc.
  • Part five: Ending mass incarceration. Changing the mind-set
  • Organizing to end mass incarceration.