Prison Nation : the Warehousing of America's Poor.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; SECTION 1: THE WAREHOUSING OF AMERICA'S POOR; The Accused Get What the System Doesn't Pay For; Absolute Power, Absolute Corruption; Color Bind; Capital Crimes; Drug Policy as Social Control; "Victims' Rights" as a Stalking-horse for State Repression; SECTION 2: TWO MILLION SWEPT AWAY; Swept Away; An American Seduction; Deadly Nostalgia; Secrecy, Power, Indefinite Detention; Trapped by the System; Relocation Blues; SECTION 3: MAKING A BUCK OFF THE PRISONER'S BACK; Making Slave Labor Fly.

The Politics of Prison LaborWork Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio; Prison Jobs and Free Market Unemployment; SECTION 4: THE PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRY; Bailing Out Private Jails; Juvenile Crime Pays-But At What Cost?; University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry; Campus Activism Defeats Multinational's Prison Profiteering; Juveniles Held Hostage for Profit by CSC in Florida; SECTION 5: MALIGN NEGLECT: PRISON MEDICINE; The New Bedlam; Wreaking Medical Mayhem on Women Prisoners in Washington State; Hepatitis C; Dying for Profits.

"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years. He Didn't Sentence Me to Death."FDOC Hazardous to Prisoners' Health; Bill Clinton's Blood Trails; SECTION 6: RAPE, RACISM, AND REPRESSION; The Restraint Chair; Cowboys and Prisoners; Deliberate Indifference; Corcoran; Guarding Their Silence; Our Sisters' Keepers; Not Part of My Sentence; "Make It Hard for Them"; Anatomy of a Whitewash; Sentenced to the Backwaters of Greene County, PA; SECTION 7: THE BARS TO PRISON LITIGATION; Prison Litigation 1950-2000; Barring the Federal Courthouses to Prisoners; The Limits of Law; Contributors; About Prison Legal News; Index.

First published in 2003.

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