Prison. Incarceration and the Making of America
Par :Formats :
Disponible dans votre compte client Decitre ou Furet du Nord dès validation de votre commande. Le format ePub protégé est :
- Compatible avec une lecture sur My Vivlio (smartphone, tablette, ordinateur)
- Compatible avec une lecture sur liseuses Vivlio
- Pour les liseuses autres que Vivlio, vous devez utiliser le logiciel Adobe Digital Edition. Non compatible avec la lecture sur les liseuses Kindle, Remarkable et Sony
- Non compatible avec un achat hors France métropolitaine
, qui est-ce ?Notre partenaire de plateforme de lecture numérique où vous retrouverez l'ensemble de vos ebooks gratuitement
Pour en savoir plus sur nos ebooks, consultez notre aide en ligne ici
C'est si simple ! Lisez votre ebook avec l'app Vivlio sur votre tablette, mobile ou ordinateur :
- Nombre de pages432
- Date de parution09/03/2027
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-1-5416-7538-4
- EAN9781541675384
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurBasic Books
Résumé
A sweeping history of American prisons, showing how they have shaped the US from the founding to the present. The land of the free is the home of the prisoner. The United States today incarcerates more than two million people, amounting to nearly a quarter of the world's prison population. America's prisoners are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately Black, serving sentences far longer than they would receive for similar crimes in most other countries.
This is not a new problem. This nation has always preferred captivity as the solution to its social disorders, its population's changes, and its people's inconvenient demands. The prison has fueled America's rise from the very beginning. Prison looks through the eyes of incarcerated rebels, unionists, journalists, and incorrigibles to chronicle how the rickety wooden jails of colonial America gave way to the supermax prisons of the present. Along the way, prisons supplied the labor that built a young nation, contained unruly workers who demanded change, and magnified racist policies. At the same time, the prison has never succeeded in silencing its captives.
Indeed, they have been among the nation's clearest thinkers of freedom. Recovering the voices of incarcerated people across centuries of history, Prison reveals that the story of America is a story of prisons.
This is not a new problem. This nation has always preferred captivity as the solution to its social disorders, its population's changes, and its people's inconvenient demands. The prison has fueled America's rise from the very beginning. Prison looks through the eyes of incarcerated rebels, unionists, journalists, and incorrigibles to chronicle how the rickety wooden jails of colonial America gave way to the supermax prisons of the present. Along the way, prisons supplied the labor that built a young nation, contained unruly workers who demanded change, and magnified racist policies. At the same time, the prison has never succeeded in silencing its captives.
Indeed, they have been among the nation's clearest thinkers of freedom. Recovering the voices of incarcerated people across centuries of history, Prison reveals that the story of America is a story of prisons.
