Rethinking the American prison movement /
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings and diverse coalitions with free-worl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | American social and political movements of the twentieth century.
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| Summary: | Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 206 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138786844 1138786845 9781138786851 1138786853 |