Gates of Injustice The Crisis in America's Prisons
| Author/creator | Elsner, Alan Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Publication Info | Prentice Hall [Imprint] E Rutherford : Prentice Hall PTR Old Tappan : Pearson Education [Distributor] |
| Description | 304 p. 08.820 x 05.920 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation <b>Gates of Injustice</b>is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system now completely updated in this<i>new paperback editon</i>: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be incarcerated; what it's really like on the inside; what it's like for the families left on the outside; and how an enormous "prison-industrial complex" has grown to support and promote imprisonment in place of virtually every other alternative. Reuters journalist Alan Elsner shows how prisons really work, how race-based gangs are able to control institutions and prey on weaker inmates, and how an epidemic of abuse and brutality has exploded across American prisons. Readers will discover the plight of 300,000 mentally ill people in prisons, virtually abandoned with little medical treatment. They'll also meet the fastest growing segment of the prison population: women. Readers go inside "supermax" prisons that cut inmates off from all human contact, and uncover the official corruption and brutality that riddles jail systems in major cities like Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York. Finally, they'll learn prisons accelerate the spread of infectious diseases throughout the broader society--just one of the many ways the prison epidemic touches everyone, even if they've never met anyone who's gone to jail. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004043293 |
| ISBN | 9780131881792 |
| ISBN | 0131881795 (Perfect) Active Record |
| UPC | 076092039952 |
| Standard identifier# | 9780131881792 |
| Stock number | 00021483 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |