Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

摘要: Consider the following: Over 1.7 million Americans live in prison, a three hundred percent increase since 1980; In some US cities, one third of all young Black men are jail, on probation or awaiting trial; California, spending prisons has eclipsed allocations for higher education; Starbucks, Jansport and Microsoft use prison labor to package their products; Corrections Corporations America, nation's largest private jailer, been dubbed 'theme stock 90s.' Why is criminal justice so central American politics? Lockdown America not only documents horrors absurdities militarized policing, prisons, fortified border, federalization war crime, it also explains political economic history behind massive crackdown. Written accessible vivid prose, will propel readers toward deeper understanding links between crime politics period gathering crisis.