"Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations soared, the increase in women?s rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. This book draws upon four years of on-the-ground research in a major US women?s prison to uncover why tou…
"We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarcera…
Willi Kufalt, having been unjustly accused as a youth, reacts to a hostile environment by committing embezzlement. After five years behind bars he attempts to regain a foothold in society -- only to land back in jail, where he finds a "home" that he had been denied outside priso…
Veterans' policy and veteran organizations, 1917 - 1929. Rethinking the Bonus March. The "New Deal" for veterans. The Bonus re-emerges. "The Pro-Bonus Party." Veteran politics and the New Deal's political triumph of 1936.
Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around not…
