celling of America : an inside look at the U.S. prison industry /, The

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Publisher
Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press,
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ISBN
1567511406
Collection
Regular item
Year
1998
Description

Prisons--Government policy--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Prisoners--United States--Social conditions.

Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.

Convict labor--United States.

Prisons in mass media.

"A Prison legal news book."

"In The Celling of America, prison journalists will kick open the doors of America's prisons and take you on a hair-raising tour to teach you:

How corporations like Microsoft are raking in big bucks from prison labor;

How the privatization of prisons means prisoners build heir own cages;

That over 3,000 men and women live under a death sentence in America-forty percent of them are black.