Gates of injustice
Subtitle: the crisis in America's prisons
By: Alan Elsner
Series: Financial Times Prentice Hall books
Publisher: FT Prentice Hall
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780131427914
Subjects: Prisoners; Imprisonment; Prisons
Description: "Gates of Injustice is a compelling expose of the U.S. prison system: it tells how more than 2 million Americans came to be incarcerated ... what it's really like on the inside ... and how a giant "prison-industrial complex" promotes imprisonment over other solutions." "Elsner takes you inside "supermax" prisons that deny inmates human contact and reveals official corruption and brutality within U.S. jails. You'll also learn how prisons help to spread infectious diseases throughout society ... one of the ways the prison crisis touches you, even if you've never had a brush with the law."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The second toughest sheriff in America; title: Becoming a Prison Nation; title: Entering the Gates; title: The Vulnerable; title: The Sanity of the System; title: An Unhealthy Situtation; title: Women behind Bars; title: Supermax; title: Short-Term Problems; title: Money, Money, Money; title: After Prison; title: Some Modest Suggestions; title: Endnotes; title: Index