The Warehouse Prison: Disposal of the New Dangerous Class
- ISBN-10
- 1931719357
- ISBN-13
- 9781931719353
- Category
- Social Science / Penology
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Roxbury Publishing Company
- Author
- John Irwin
Description
This book examines the nature of imprisonment in the U.S. warehouse prisons through a study of Solano State Prison, a new California middle-range institution, where new technologies and prison regimes are being used to control up to 6,000 inmates. These inmates are crowded in a small space, with little access to rehabilitative and recreational programs. Control is accomplished through the physical design of the prison, the use of surveillance technology, the rigid enforcement of extensive rules, and the possibility of transferring troublesome prisoners to supermax prisons. The book identifies harm that this kind of prison experience imposes on individuals, and looks at the difficulties ex-inmates have in adjusting after release.
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