Offers an insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties as well as a look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters.
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"More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons -- one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study examines the human costs of…
Tiergestützte Interventionen im Justizvollzug
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Tiergestützte Interventionen im Justizvollzug
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In this work, the author suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Are prisons obsolete?
by Davis, Angela Y., (Angela Yvonne), Freeman, Steve
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With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were e…
"With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis makes the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were en…
"From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished 50,000 convicts to America--the largest body of immigrants, aside from African slaves, ever sent across the Atlantic--in hopes of restoring social peace at home without posing the threat to traditional freedoms raised by the death pena…