This Is My Jail : Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration /

While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newport, Melanie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Colección:Politics and Culture in Modern America
Temas:
Correctional personnel.
Imprisonment > Political aspects.
Imprisonment > Social aspects.
Jails.
History-African American.
History-United States.
History-Urban.
Sociology-Criminology.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
African American history.
Black history.
Chicago.
Cook County.
Joseph Lohman.
Mayor Richard Daley.
Progressive Era.
Winston Moore.
bail.
commissioners.
criminal justice.
criminology.
jail reform.
law and order politics.
law enforcement.
local jails.
mass incarceration.
misdemeanor.
prisoner rights.
rehabilitation.
sentences.
sheriffs.
twentieth century.
urban history.
wardens.
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