Gates of Injustice? : The Crisis in America's Prisons

By (author) Elsner, Alan

Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system: 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.

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  • Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. The Second Toughest Sheriff in America. 2. Becoming a Prison Nation. 3. Entering the Gates. 4. The Vulnerable. 5. The Sanity of the System. 6. An Unhealthy Situation. 7. Women Behind Bars. 8. Supermax. 9. Short-Term Problems. 10. Money, Money, Money. 11. After Prison. 12. Some Modest Suggestions. Endnotes. Index.

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書名 Gates of Injustice? : The Crisis in America's Prisons
著作者等 Elsner, Alan
書名別名 The Crisis in America's Prisons
出版元 Financial TImes Prentice Hall
刊行年月 2004.04.05
ページ数 288p
大きさ H237 x W162
ISBN 9780131427914
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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