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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Beacon Pr
Publication date
May 2, 2007
Pages
213
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780807042229
ISBN-10
0807042226
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$25.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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In this dramatic exposé of U.S. penitentiaries and the communities around them, Sasha Abramsky finds that prisons have dumped their age-old goal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. The new Âideal,â unknown to most Americans, is a punitive mandate marked by a drive toward vengeance.
Surveying this state of affairsÂlife sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions, the growth of private prisons, the treatment of juvenilesÂAbramsky asks: Does the vengeful impulse ennoble our culture or demean it? What can become of people who are quarantined for years in a violent subculture? Californiaâs Three Strikes law typifies the politics that exploit the grief of victimsâ families and our fears of violent crime. Brilliantly researched and compellingly told, American Furies shows that the ethos of Âlock âem up and throw away the keyâ has enormous social costs.
ÂThe most urgent book of the season. Sasha Abramsky provides us with an invaluable, if harrowing, audit of the cataclysmic damage inflicted upon American values by American prisons. The lack of compassion in our national life and the gangrened hearts of our politicians pose greater threats to our childrensâ futures than any overseas terrorist conspiracy.â ÂMike Davis, professor of history at University of CaliforniaÂIrvine and author of seven books including Planet of Slums and The Monster At Our Door
ÂA smart, compassionate and tough-minded look at the rise and impact of the tough-on-crime culture that has made America the world's foremost jailer. By showing us how we got into this mess, this revelatory book also holds out hope that we might find our way out.â ÂNell Bernstein, former Soros Justice Media Fellow and author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
"This is by far the most intelligent and haunting indictment of the American prison system that I have ever read. Sasha Abramsky has shone an incandescent lamp on a shadowy underground universe that holds and in all too many cases brutalizes the lives of more than two million Americans. He should be commended for doing so, and his book made required reading for every legislator in the land, bar none." ÂSimon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and The Professor and the Madman
ÂIt is with an exemplary and multifaceted grasp of the history and modern-day reality of incarceration that Abramsky is able to grasp the full context of why callous negligence and brutality so abound in the American prison system . . . American Furies is a brilliantly crafted piece of creative non-fiction replete with non-dogmatic, accessible, and lyrical prose . . . In the difficult realm of prison reporting, Abramsky is unquestionably among the best and brightest, and American Furies is clear evidence of such.â ÂThe American Prospect
Praise for Conned:
ÂTimely and important. Instead of preaching democracy to the world, the United States should start practicing it at home.â ÂEric Schlosser
ÂThe war on drugs, the disenfranchisement of convicted felons, a series of dodgy electoral Republican victories . . . someone had to connect the dots, and Sasha Abramsky has done so with passion, precision, and artistry.â ÂBarbara Ehrenreich
Sasha Abramsky has written for The Atlantic, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. The author of Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House and Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation, he has also reported on U.S. prisons for Human Rights Watch. He lives in Sacramento, California.
Surveying this state of affairsÂlife sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions, the growth of private prisons, the treatment of juvenilesÂAbramsky asks: Does the vengeful impulse ennoble our culture or demean it? What can become of people who are quarantined for years in a violent subculture? Californiaâs Three Strikes law typifies the politics that exploit the grief of victimsâ families and our fears of violent crime. Brilliantly researched and compellingly told, American Furies shows that the ethos of Âlock âem up and throw away the keyâ has enormous social costs.
ÂThe most urgent book of the season. Sasha Abramsky provides us with an invaluable, if harrowing, audit of the cataclysmic damage inflicted upon American values by American prisons. The lack of compassion in our national life and the gangrened hearts of our politicians pose greater threats to our childrensâ futures than any overseas terrorist conspiracy.â ÂMike Davis, professor of history at University of CaliforniaÂIrvine and author of seven books including Planet of Slums and The Monster At Our Door
ÂA smart, compassionate and tough-minded look at the rise and impact of the tough-on-crime culture that has made America the world's foremost jailer. By showing us how we got into this mess, this revelatory book also holds out hope that we might find our way out.â ÂNell Bernstein, former Soros Justice Media Fellow and author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
"This is by far the most intelligent and haunting indictment of the American prison system that I have ever read. Sasha Abramsky has shone an incandescent lamp on a shadowy underground universe that holds and in all too many cases brutalizes the lives of more than two million Americans. He should be commended for doing so, and his book made required reading for every legislator in the land, bar none." ÂSimon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and The Professor and the Madman
ÂIt is with an exemplary and multifaceted grasp of the history and modern-day reality of incarceration that Abramsky is able to grasp the full context of why callous negligence and brutality so abound in the American prison system . . . American Furies is a brilliantly crafted piece of creative non-fiction replete with non-dogmatic, accessible, and lyrical prose . . . In the difficult realm of prison reporting, Abramsky is unquestionably among the best and brightest, and American Furies is clear evidence of such.â ÂThe American Prospect
Praise for Conned:
ÂTimely and important. Instead of preaching democracy to the world, the United States should start practicing it at home.â ÂEric Schlosser
ÂThe war on drugs, the disenfranchisement of convicted felons, a series of dodgy electoral Republican victories . . . someone had to connect the dots, and Sasha Abramsky has done so with passion, precision, and artistry.â ÂBarbara Ehrenreich
Sasha Abramsky has written for The Atlantic, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. The author of Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House and Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation, he has also reported on U.S. prisons for Human Rights Watch. He lives in Sacramento, California.
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Miscellaneous
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