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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Pearson P T R
Publication date
January 15, 2006
Pages
283
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780131881792
ISBN-10
0131881795
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.65 lbs.
Original list price
$23.99
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White Rage | The Age of Sustainable Development | American Citizenship | The Faces of Injustice | Capitalism and Justice | Justice | Half the Sky
White Rage | The Age of Sustainable Development | American Citizenship | The Faces of Injustice | Capitalism and Justice | Justice | Half the Sky
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system now completely updated in this new paperback editon: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be incarcerated; what it's really like on the inside; what it's like for the families left on the outside; and how an enormous "prison-industrial complex" has grown to support and promote imprisonment in place of virtually every other alternative. Reuters journalist Alan Elsner shows how prisons really work, how race-based gangs are able to control institutions and prey on weaker inmates, and how an epidemic of abuse and brutality has exploded across American prisons. Readers will discover the plight of 300,000 mentally ill people in prisons, virtually abandoned with little medical treatment. They'll also meet the fastest growing segment of the prison population: women. Readers go inside "supermax" prisons that cut inmates off from all human contact, and uncover the official corruption and brutality that riddles jail systems in major cities like Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York. Finally, they'll learn prisons accelerate the spread of infectious diseases throughout the broader society--just one of the many ways the prison epidemic touches everyone, even if they've never met anyone who's gone to jail.
Editions
Paperback
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from Pearson P T R (January 15, 2006)
9780131881792 | details & prices | 283 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $23.99
About: Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system now completely updated in this new paperback editon: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be incarcerated; what it's really like on the inside; what it's like for the families left on the outside; and how an enormous "prison-industrial complex" has grown to support and promote imprisonment in place of virtually every other alternative.
About: Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system now completely updated in this new paperback editon: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be incarcerated; what it's really like on the inside; what it's like for the families left on the outside; and how an enormous "prison-industrial complex" has grown to support and promote imprisonment in place of virtually every other alternative.
from Financial Times Management (April 1, 2004)
9780131427914 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.14 lbs | List price $29.99
About: Confirms the dangerous and abusive conditions under which more than two million Americans now live, faults powerful political and social forces that promote imprisonment over other solutions, and offers practical proposals for reform.
About: Confirms the dangerous and abusive conditions under which more than two million Americans now live, faults powerful political and social forces that promote imprisonment over other solutions, and offers practical proposals for reform.
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