Golden gulag : prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California /
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world."...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | American crossroads ;
21. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The bus
- Introduction
- The California political economy
- The prison fix
- Crime, croplands, and capitalism
- Mothers Reclaiming Our Children
- What is to be done?
- Epilogue: Another bus.