Prison Nation (eBook, PDF)

The Warehousing of America's Poor
Redaktion: Wright, Paul; Herivel, Tara

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Produktbeschreibung

Prison Nation is a distant dispatch from a foreign and forbidden place--the world of America's prisons. Written by prisoners, social critics and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation testifies to the current state of America's prisoners' living conditions and political concerns. These concerns are not normally the concerns of most Americans, but they should be. From substandard medical care the inadequacy of resources for public defenders to the death penalty, the issues covered in this volume grow more urgent every day. Articles by outstanding writers such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noam Chomsky, Mark Dow, Judy Green, Tracy Huling and Christian Parenti chronicle the injustices of prison privatization, class and race in the justice system, our quixotic drug war, the rarely discussed prison AIDS crisis and a judicial system that rewards mostly those with significant resources or the desire to name names. Correctional facilities have become a profitable growth industry, for companies like Wackenhut that run them and companies like Boeing that use cheap prison labor. With fascinating narratives, shocking tales and small stories of hope, Prison Nation paints a picture of a world many Americans know little or nothing about.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135342562
• Artikelnr.: 39950684

Autorenporträt

Paul Wright is a Washington state prisoner, jailhouse lawyer, political activist and journalist. Paul is the co-founder of Prison Legal News, a monthly magazine published since 1990 that is prisoner written, edited and published. His last book was The Celling of America. Tara Herivel is a prisoners' rights activist and lawyer who has written for Prison Legal News and other progressive periodicals in the Seattle area.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I.The Warehousing of America's PoorThe Accused Gets What the System Doesn't Pay For
Stephen BrightAbsolute Power, Absolute Corruption
Ron OwenCapital Crimes
George WinslowColor Bind
Paul StreetDrug Policy as Social Control
Noam ChomskyVictims' Rights' as a Stalkinghorse for State Repression
Paul WrightSection II.Two Million Swept AwaySwept Away
Nell BernsteinAn American Seduction: Portrait of a Prison Town
Joelle FraserThe Politics of Boot Camp
Christian ParentiSecrecy, Power, Indefinite Detention
Mark DowTrapped by the System: Parole in America
Kelly VirellaRelocation Blues
Nell BernsteinSection IIIMaking a Buck off the Prisoner's BackBoeing Makes Slave Labor Fly
Paul WrightThe Politics of Prison Labor: a Union Perspective
Gordon LaferWork Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio
Daniel Burton
RosePrison Jobs and Free World Unemployment
Adrian LomaxSection IVThe Private Prison IndustryBailing Out Private Jails
Judith GreeneJuvenile Crime Pays
Alex FriedmannUniversity Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry
Alex FriedmannCampus Activism Defeats Multinational's Prison Profiteering
Kevin PranisJuveniles Held Hostage
Alex FriedmannSection VMalign Neglect: Prison MedicineThe New Bedlam
Willie WiselyWreaking Medical Mayhem on Washington Prisoners
Tara HerivelHepatitis C: A Silent Epidemic Strikes U.S. Prisons
Silja TalviDying for Profits
Ron YoungPrisoners with HIV Deprived of Proper Medical Care
Anne Marie CusacFDOC Hazardous to Prisoners' Health
Mark Sherwood & Bob PoseyBill Clinton's Blood Trails
Jeffrey St. ClairSection VI Rape, Racism and RepressionCowboys and Prisoners
Willie WiselyThe Restraint Chair Anne?Marie CusacDeliberate Indifference
Joanne Mariner and Human Rights Watch Corcoran
Willie WiselyGuarding Their Silence
Christian ParentiOur Sisters' Keepers
Daniel Burton RoseNot Part of my Sentence
Silja TalviMake it Hard for Them
Mark DowAnatomy of a Whitewash
Mumia Abu?JamalSentenced to the Backwaters of Greene County, P.A.
Mumia Abu?JamalSection VI