Shackled and chained
Subtitle: mass incarceration in capitalist America
By: Eugene Puryear
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780984122080
Subjects: Concentration camps; Imprisonment; History; Capitalism
Other titles: Mass incarceration in capitalist America
Description: "Eugene Puryear examines the evolution of mass incarceration as a product of the exigencies of U.S. monopoly capitalism as well as bipartisan political fealty to the system's needs. In addition to detailing its historical origins, Puryear provides a detailed examination of the oppressive reality that reigns inside America's prison system."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174).

Internet Archive - 2

Internet Archive 2
Table of contents: title: Mass incarceration today; title: An overview of mass incarceration; title: Enter the torture chambers; title: Historical development of the prison system; title: The history of US incarceration; title: Revolution in the air; title: The law-and-order response; title: Economic and ideological restructuring; title: The 'war on drugs'; title: Problems and solutions; title: Debunking burgeois theories of 'crime'; title: What alternatives to mass incarceration?; title: Appendices; title: Free all political prisoners; title: A letter from prison.