Rethinking the American Prison Movement

Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Title Rethinking the American Prison Movement PDF eBook
Author Dan Berger
Publisher
Pages 206
Release 2017-10-30
Genre History
ISBN 9781315767031

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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.

Rethinking the American Prison Movement

Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Title Rethinking the American Prison Movement PDF eBook
Author Dan Berger
Publisher Routledge
Pages 374
Release 2017-10-30
Genre History
ISBN 1317662229

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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.

Rethinking Incarceration

Rethinking Incarceration
Title Rethinking Incarceration PDF eBook
Author Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 246
Release 2018-03-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0830887733

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The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Exploring the history and foundations of mass incarceration, Dominique Gilliard examines Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion, assessing justice in light of Scripture, and showing how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles.

Captive Nation

Captive Nation
Title Captive Nation PDF eBook
Author Dan Berger
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 421
Release 2014
Genre Law
ISBN 1469618249

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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Inside Private Prisons

Inside Private Prisons
Title Inside Private Prisons PDF eBook
Author Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 476
Release 2017-11-07
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0231542313

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When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration—to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen’s work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America’s largest private prison corporations. Private prisons have become ground zero in the anti-mass-incarceration movement. Universities have divested from these companies, political candidates hesitate to accept their campaign donations, and the Department of Justice tried to phase out its contracts with them. On the other side, impoverished rural towns often try to lure the for-profit prison industry to build facilities and create new jobs. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, from mandatory bed occupancy to vested interests in mass incarceration. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape.

Struggle Within

Struggle Within
Title Struggle Within PDF eBook
Author Dan Berger
Publisher PM Press
Pages 139
Release 2014-04-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 160486981X

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The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights. Berger’s encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America’s prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.

Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Title Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration PDF eBook
Author Chris Surprenant
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 344
Release 2017-07-06
Genre Law
ISBN 1351692410

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This book offers a philosophical examination of incarceration as a form of punishment. A diverse group of contributors engages with research in criminology, economics, law, and sociology to help contextualize the philosophical issues.