The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America by Marie Gottschalk

The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

Marie Gottschalk

451 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. What a...

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