- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Routledge
2003.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- 332 p. ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780415935388
9780415935371
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section 1. The Warehousing of America's Poor
- The Accused Get What the System Doesn't Pay For
- Absolute Power, Absolute Corruption
- Color Bind
- Capital Crimes
- Drug Policy as Social Control
- "Victims' Rights" as a Stalking-horse for State Repression
- Section 2. Two Million Swept Away
- Swept Away
- An American Seduction
- Deadly Nostalgia
- Secrecy, Power, Indefinite Detention
- Trapped by the System
- Relocation Blues
- Section 3. Making a Buck off the Prisoner's Back
- Making Slave Labor Fly
- The Politics of Prison Labor
- Work Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio
- Prison Jobs and Free Market Unemployment
- Section 4. The Private Prison Industry
- Bailing Out Private Jails
- Juvenile Crime Pays--But At What Cost?
- University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry
- Campus Activism Defeats Multinational's Prison Profiteering
- Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida
- Section 5. Malign Neglect: Prison Medicine
- The New Bedlam
- Wreaking Medical Mayhem on Women Prisoners in Washington State
- Hepatitis C
- Dying for Profits
- "The Judge Gave Me Ten Years. He Didn't Sentence Me to Death."
- FDOC Hazardous to Prisoners' Health
- Bill Clinton's Blood Trails
- Section 6. Rape, Racism, and Repression
- The Restraint Chair
- Cowboys and Prisoners
- Deliberate Indifference
- Corcoran
- Guarding Their Silence
- Our Sisters' Keepers
- Not Part of My Sentence
- "Make It Hard for Them"
- Anatomy of a Whitewash
- Sentenced to the Backwaters of Greene County, PA
- Section 7. The Bars to Prison Litigation
- Prison Litigation 1950-2000
- Barring the Federal Courthouses to Prisoners
- The Limits of Law
- Contributors
- About Prison Legal News
- Index