Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
"A magnificent analysis of the political economy of super-incarceration and the slave plantations that California calls prisons." - Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear "Golden Gulag is a deeply necessary book for our times. Gilmore digs beneath the easy answers to the more troubling causes of a political consensus that prisons are the only solution to all urban and rural ills." - Nayan Shah, author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown"