This Is My Jail : : Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.
While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Whose Good Intentions?
- Chapter 1 The Least Human of American Institutions
- Chapter 2 Forgotten Men
- Chapter 3 A Model Detention Camp
- Chapter 4 Games of Political Power
- Chapter 5 Control Comes First
- Chapter 6 More and More Jails
- Epilogue: The Persistence of Good Intentions
- Notes
- Archives Consulted
- Index
- Acknowledgments