Gates of Injustice
- ISBN-10
- 0768682266
- ISBN-13
- 9780768682267
- Category
- Imprisonment
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-04-05
- Publisher
- FT Press
- Author
- Alan Elsner
Description
Elsner provides new insight into the powerful political and social forces driving imprisonment in America. Most importantly, he charts a path for reform ... one that could make America not merely more humane, but safer. ""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; Alan Elsner paints a terrifying picture of how our prisons really work. You'll hear how race-based gangs control institutions and prey on the weak - and how a rape epidemic has swept the U.S.
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- 2004
- 264 pages
- Paperback
- Financial Times Prentice Hall
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