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"The Big House" is America's idea of the prison---a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, ... More

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One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and ... More

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Describes the shocking condition of the U.S. justice system. Also proposes specific biblical solutions and challenges communities to undertake real ... More

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The United States imprisons more persons than any other nation. The social and economic costs impact every citizen. This collection of opposing ... More

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The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners ... More

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Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences, Second Edition, investigates and analyzes prisons--and the often undocumented costs of imprisonment ... More

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Volumes in the Information Plus Reference Series are completely revised and updated every two years.

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Contains extensive information about prisons including a comprehensive annotated bibliography for other sources of information on the topic.

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"A policy-oriented, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural examination of the cost and consequences of imprisonment.... Selke details how prisons in ... More

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From a federal inmate in his 18th year of continuous confinement comes a controversial expos of the shocking details of life in American prisons.

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Elsner presents an extraordinary, comprehensive, shocking expose of the American prison system. With more than two million inmates, the impact of ... More

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Explaining U.S. Imprisonment examines women in prison, minorities, the historical path to the modern prison, a wide range of contemporary issues, and ... More

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While prison populations in the U.S. increased almost tenfold from 1980 to 2000, studies of men's prisons have dwindled. For this reason, eminent ... More

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