Rethinking the American prison movement

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Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarcer…

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Title Statements

Full title :Rethinking the American prison movement / Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 206 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317662228, 1317662229, 9781315767031, 1315767031
oclc:on1000298063
LC Classification:HV9465
Dewey Decimal:365/.973

Introduction -- Roots: challenging prison slavery and political repression, 1865-1940 -- Rights: fighting prison Jim Crow, 1940-1968 -- Revolution: the prison rebellion years, 1968-1972 -- Radicalism: unions, feminism, and the crisis of prison managerialism, 1973-1980 -- Retrenchment: mass incarceration and the remaking of the prison movement, 1980-1998 -- Conclusion.

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Criminal justice, Administration of Criminal justice, Administration of -- … Emprisonnement -- Histoire. -- États-Un… History imprisonment Imprisonment -- History. -- United Stat… Prison administration Prison administration -- History. -- Un… Prisons Prisons -- Administration -- États-Unis Prisons -- Histoire. -- États-Unis Prisons -- History. -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology United States