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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 DoorÂA 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 MadmanÂIt 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 ProspectPraise for Conned:ÂTimely and important. Instead of preaching democracy to the world, the United States should start practicing it at home.â ÂEric SchlosserÂThe 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 EhrenreichSasha 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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9780807042229 | Beacon Pr, May 2, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In this dramatic exposé of U.
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9780807042236 | Beacon Pr, May 15, 2008, cover price $18.00
9780807099162 | Beacon Pr, March 30, 2007, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In this disturbing yet elegant exposé of U.
Miscellaneous:
9780807042359 | Beacon Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $14.95
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9781568587264 | Nation Books, September 10, 2013, cover price $26.99
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9781568584607 | Reprint edition (Nation Books, August 26, 2014), cover price $16.99
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9780981709116 | Polipoint Pr, June 1, 2009, cover price $23.95
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9781936227099 | Polipoint Pr, April 2, 2011, cover price $20.95
A critical analysis of the consequences of felony disenfranchisement laws that prohibit people in prison or on parole from voting cites the laws' origins in the post-Civil War segregationist South, in an account by an award-winning journalist that also profiles Americans who are trying to reverse current policies.
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9781565849662 | New Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A critical analysis of the consequences of felony disenfranchisement laws that prohibit people in prison or on parole from voting cites the laws' origins in the post-Civil War segregationist South, in an account by an award-winning journalist that also profiles Americans who are trying to reverse current policies.
A riveting investigation into the dramatically increasing growth of the American prison system over the past twenty years centers around the story of Billy Ochoa, a career criminal who has been in and out of prision since the late 1970s, and examines the 'War on Drugs,' the growth of the SuperMax Prisons, the Three Strikes laws, and the politicians who rose to success on the coattails of the 'crime issue.'
Hardcover:
9780312268114 | 1 edition (Thomas Dunne Books, January 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An investigation into the increasing growth of the American prison system over the past twenty years centers around the story of Billy Ochoa, a career criminal who has been in and out of prison since the late 1970s.
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9781590178881 | New York Review of Books, September 1, 2015, cover price $27.95
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9781591843023 | Portfolio, December 1, 2009, cover price $24.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781596594449 | Unabridged edition (Gildan Audio, April 6, 2010), cover price $29.98
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