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Total Confinement
In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the \"supermaximums\"-and the mental health units that complement them-Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat. Her often harrowing, sometimes poignant, exploration of maximum security confinement includes vivid testimony from prisoners and prison workers, describes routines and practices inside prison walls, and takes a hard look at the prison industry. More than an exposé,Total Confinementis a theoretically sophisticated meditation on what incarceration tells us about who we are as a society. Rhodes tackles difficult questions about the extreme conditions of confinement, the treatment of the mentally ill in prisons, and an ever-advancing technology of isolation and surveillance. Using her superb interview skills and powers of observation, she documents how prisoners, workers, and administrators all struggle to retain dignity and a sense of self within maximum security institutions. In settings that place in question the very humanity of those who live and work in them, Rhodes discovers complex interactions-from the violent to the tender-among prisoners and staff.Total Confinementoffers an indispensable close-up of the implications of our dependence on prisons to solve long-standing problems of crime and injustice in the United States.
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Ghostly prisons
They say that violent deaths beget vengeful spirits refusing to rest in peace. Anne Boleyn was beheaded with a single stroke of a sword at the Tower of London in 1536. After that vicious execution, some say she still roams the Tower grounds! Similar disturbing accounts of historical prisons around the world abound in this spine-tingling and highly motivating work. A world map, vivid photographs, and stimulating sidebars further encourage readers to understand more about the history, geography, and culture involved in each prison s unique story. Full-Color Photographs, Further Information Section, Glossary, Index, Maps, Sidebars, Websites.
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Inside Rubio's negotiations to use El Salvador mega prison
Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to betray MS-13 informants in exchange for access to El Salvador's most notorious prison.
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Doing Time in the Depression
As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across
the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the
Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell
blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state
institutions that held growing numbers of working people from
around the country and the world-overwhelmingly poor,
disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.
Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas
and California's penal systems. Each element of prison life-from
numbing boredom to hard labor, from meager pleasure in popular
culture to crushing pain from illness or violence-demonstrated a
contest between keepers and the kept. From the moment they arrived
to the day they would leave, inmates struggled over the meanings of
race and manhood, power and poverty, and of the state itself. In
this richly layered account, Blue compellingly argues that
punishment in California and Texas played a critical role in
producing a distinctive set of class, race, and gender identities
in the 1930s, some of which reinforced the social hierarchies and
ideologies of New Deal America, and others of which undercut and
troubled the established social order. He reveals the underside of
the modern state in two very different prison systems, and the
making of grim institutions whose power would only grow across the
century.
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Solitary confinement : effects, practices, and pathways toward reform
\"The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty, it is arguably the most punitive and dangerous intervention available to state authorities in democratic nations. Nevertheless, in the United States there are currently an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 prisoners in small cells for more than 22 hours per day with little or no social contact and no physical contact visits with family or friends. Even in Scandinavia, thousands of prisoners are placed in solitary confinement every year and with an alarming frequency. These facts have spawned international interest in this topic and a growing international reform movement, which includes researchers, litigators, and human rights defenders as well as prison staff and prisoners. This book is the first to take a broad international comparative approach and to apply an interdisciplinary lens to this subject. In this volume neuroscientists, high-level prison officials, social and political scientists, medical doctors, lawyers, and former prisoners and their families from different countries will address the effects and practices of prolonged solitary confinement and the movement for its reform and abolition\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Homan: Trump administration to ‘flood the zone’ in New York
Border czar Tom Homan vowed to crackdown on sanctuary cities on July 21 after a CBP officer was shot in an apparent robbery.
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