Prison nation : the warehousing of America's poor / edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herivel, Tara.

Wright, Paul, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--United States.

Prisons.

Corrections.

Poor.

United States.

Prisoners--United States.

Prisoners.

Poor--Effect of imprisonment on--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Corrections--United States.

Corrections--Contracting out--United States.

Corrections--Contracting out.

Privatization--United States.

Privatization.

Poor--Government policy--United States.

Poor--Government policy.

Physical Description:

332 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Warehousing of America's poor

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Written by prisoners, social critics, and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation testifies to the current state of America's prisoners' living conditions and political concerns. From substandard medical care and the rarely discussed prison AIDS crisis to our quixotic drug war and the injustices of prison privatization, the issues covered in this volume grow more urgent every day. With fascinating narratives, shocking tales, and small stories of hope, Prison Nation paints a picture of a world many Americans know little or nothing about.

Contents:

Section 1 The Warehousing of America's Poor

The Accused Get What the System Doesn't Pay For / Stephen B. Bright 6

Absolute Power, Absolute Corruption / Robert Owen 23

Color Bind / Paul Street 30

Capital Crimes / George Winslow 41

Drug Policy as Social Control / Noam Chomsky 57

"Victims' Rights" as a Stalking-horse for State Repression / Paul Wright 60

Section 2 Two Million Swept Away

Swept Away / Nell Bernstein 66

An American Seduction / Joelle Fraser 73

Deadly Nostalgia / Christian Parenti 85

Secrecy, Power, Indefinite Detention / Mark Dow 93

Trapped by the System / Kelly Virella 100

Relocation Blues / Nell Bernstein 106

Section 3 Making a Buck off the Prisoner's Back

Making Slave Labor Fly / Paul Wright 112

The Politics of Prison Labor / Gordon Lafer 120

Work Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio / Daniel Burton-Rose 129

Prison Jobs and Free Market Unemployment / Adrian Lomax 133

Section 4 The Private Prison Industry

Bailing Out Private Jails / Judith Greene 138

Juvenile Crime Pays

But At What Cost? / Alex Friedman 148

University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry / Alex Friedman 154

Campus Activism Defeats Multinational's Prison Profiteering / Kevin Pranis 156

Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida / Alex Friedman 164

Section 5 Malign Neglect: Prison Medicine

The New Bedlam / Willie Wisely 168

Wreaking Medical Mayhem on Women Prisoners in Washington State / Tara Herivel 174

Hepatitis C / Silja J. A. Talvi 181

Dying for Profits / Ronald Young 187

"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years. He Didn't Sentence Me to Death." / Anne-Marie Cusac 195

FDOC Hazardous to Prisoners' Health / Mark Sherwood, Bob Posey 204

Bill Clinton's Blood Trails / Jeffrey St. Clair 210

Section 6 Rape, Racism, and Repression

The Restraint Chair / Anne-Marie Cusac 216

Cowboys and Prisoners / Willie Wisely 227

Deliberate Indifference / Joanne Mariner 231

Corcoran / Willie Wisely 245

Guarding Their Silence / Christian Parenti 252

Our Sisters' Keepers / Daniel Burton-Rose 258

Not Part of My Sentence / Sii Ja J. A. Talvi 262

"Make It Hard for Them" / Mark Dow 269

Anatomy of a Whitewash / Mumia Abu-Jamal 274

Sentenced to the Backwaters of Greene County, PA / Mumia Abu-Jamal 276

Section 7 The Bars to Prison Litigation

Prison Litigation 1950-2000 / John Midgley 281

Barring the Federal Courthouses to Prisoners / Matthew T. Clarke 301

The Limits of Law / Mumia Abu-Jamal 315.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415935377

0415935385

OCLC:

51271912