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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle
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In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals in "The New Jim Crow," today it is perfectly... [More...]


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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle
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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Foucault, Michel
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In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.


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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Davis, Angela Yvonne
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World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates.


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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Young, Rusty
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Inspired by the description of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison in the "Lonely Planet" guidebook, Young decided to spend four months listening to inmate McFadden and learning about one of the strangest places on earth.


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The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Pyle, Kevin
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Comics. Social Justice. Penology. One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. This volume... [More...]


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No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Kuklin, Susan
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"No Choirboy "takes readers inside America's prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw and uncensored—they talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings... [More...]


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Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice
Zehr, Howard J.
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Changing Lenses examines our assumptions about crime and justice, which it terms a 'retributive' lens or paradigm. It then looks at historical, biblical, and practical alternatives.


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Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison?
Boothe, Demico
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African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the 10.4 million Black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with another 3.5 million more on probation or parole or who have... [More...]


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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
Earley, Pete
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An explosive eyewitness portrait of life inside the nations's most notorious maximum security prison by the author of Family of Spies. Earley spent two years inside Leavenworth—the infamous penitentiary that is home to 1,400 of the nation's most... [More...]


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