Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex : Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives /

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Stephen John Hartnett is an associate professor and chair of communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror and Executing Democracy, Volume One: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1683-1807. --Boo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hartnett, Stephen J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisons.
Prison-industrial complex.
Imprisonment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prisons > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Complexe industriel carceral > États-Unis.
Prisons > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Prison-industrial complex > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Stephen John Hartnett is an associate professor and chair of communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror and Executing Democracy, Volume One: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1683-1807. --Book Jacket.
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who have worked within and against the prison system join forces here to call attention to the debilitating effects of a punishment-driven society and offer clear-eyed alternatives, emphasizing working directly with prisoners and their communities.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9780252090165

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