Hard Time Blues
Subtitle: How Politics Built a Prison Nation
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: January 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312268114
Subjects: Criminology; Social Science / Criminology; Law Enforcement; Penology; Social Science; Criminal justice, Administrati; Criminal justice, Administration of; Discrimination in criminal jus; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Imprisonment; Political aspects; United States; Sociology
First sentence: Billy Ochoa had been living with his younger sister Virginia, her daughter, and her sick son Arthur, since he had been expelled from the Weingart Center halfway house on November 11, 1994, where he had lived after serving a couple of years in prison for welfare fraud in the early 1990s.