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Hard Time Blues [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Sasha Abramsky
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 In 1980, 300,000 Americans were in prisons across the country. In 2000, that number is close to 2 million. Sasha Abramsky, an English journalist, was taken aback by the culture of incarceration that he encountered upon moving to the U.S. After writing articles in The Atlantic Monthly on poverty, drugs, and crime, he found the growth of the American prison system over the past 20 years so astonishing, that he felt a book must be written. Primarily set in California, it is narrated using two centr... more info>> 2002
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American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment [Secure Microsoft Reader]
by Sasha Abramsky
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In this dramatic expose 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 "ideal," unknown to most Americans, is a punitive mandate marked by a drive toward vengeance. Surveying this state of affairs--life sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions, the growth of private prisons, the treatment of juveniles--Abramsky asks: Does the vengeful impulse ennoble our ... more info>>
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