States of Confinement
by: Joy A. James
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Product Details
Category - Non Fiction / Politics and Political Science
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 3 years ago
Views - 13
Wishes - 2
Ships From - Michigan
Est. Publication Date - Feb 2000
Seller Description
#hardcover#prisonsystem#hiddenshame#poor#punishment States of confinement confronts all of us with the nations head in shame— the 2 million people locked and it’s prisons by a system that marks for special punishment the poor, the non-white, the helpless. This book is an enormously useful treasury of information, joining powerful personal stories with bold, thoughtful analysis. I hope it will be widely read. Ex-lib. Cover wavy.
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States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons
ISBN: 9780312217778
Publisher Description
The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in...
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