America is the Prison

America is the Prison
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780807833872
ISBN-13 : 0807833878
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis America is the Prison by : Lee Bernstein

Download or read book America is the Prison written by Lee Bernstein and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forc


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