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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newport, Melanie D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Colección:Politics and culture in modern America.
Temas:
Jails.
Imprisonment > Political aspects.
Imprisonment > Social aspects.
Correctional personnel.
Prisons.
Emprisonnement > Aspect politique.
Emprisonnement > Aspect social.
Services correctionnels > Personnel.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
Correctional personnel
Imprisonment > Social aspects
Jails
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Whose good intentions?
  • The least human of American institutions
  • Forgotten men
  • A model detention camp
  • Games of political power
  • Control comes first
  • More and more jails
  • Epilogue: The persistence of good intentions

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