Documents
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How to Stop a Prison in Your Town
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CPMP's step-by-step guide to stopping the construction of a prison in your town (69 pages)
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Unlocking America
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The report, titled “Unlocking America: Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population,” is co-authored by nine leading criminology and penal experts. It “recommends significant reforms to the criminal justice system in order to reduce the prison population. Recommendations include reducing length of stay in prison and eliminating prison time for technical parole and probation violations.”
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Como Parar Una Prision En Su Pueblo -En Espanol!
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Nuestra guía paso a paso para detener una prisión en su ciudad, completamente traducido en español!
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Prisons: New Forms of Environmental Racism
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A pamphlet produced with Critical Resistance that explains how prisons are an issue of environmental justice, polluting the land, water, air and quality of life in the communities where they are sited.
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"An American Seduction: Portrait of Prison Town" by by Joelle Fraser
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Description of the impacts of prisons on Susanville,CA
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Environmental Racism - En Espanol!
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Las Prisiones: Nuevas Formas de Racismo Ambiental
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California In Crisis
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"The Development of Last Resort": The
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This study uses 1990 and 2000 census data to examine the economic and demographic impact of new state prisons on small town economies compared to changes that occurred during the decade in all other small towns.
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Joining Forces: Prison and Environmental Justice in recent California organizing
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An article by Rose Braz and Craig Gilmore that explores the connections between anti-prison and environmental justice organizing.
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"The Economic Impacts of the Prison Development Boom on Persistently Poor Places" by T.L. Farrington and A.K. Glasmeier.
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The paper examine the effects of state-run prisons, constructed in rural places between 1985 and 1995, on county earnings by employment sector, population, poverty rate, and degree of economic health.
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AB 900 Jail Phase
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Golden Gulag: Prisons, surplus, crisis and opposition in globalizing California (University of California)
An in-depth analysis of the rise of prisons in California, written by one of CPMP's co-founders.
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Phil Mattera and Mafruza Khan, with Greg LeRoy and Kate Davis, Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Pris
Focuses on private prisons. Good information for building a case against prison expansion. For more information, visit www.goodjobsfirst.org
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Marc Mauer and Medea Chesney-Lind (editors), Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Essays about the effects prisons have on society.
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Marilyn McShane and Frank Williams, Encyclopedia of American Prisons (Gailand Publishing, 1996)
A straightforward A-Z guide to the history, terminology and processes of the U.S. prison system.
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Christian Parenti, Lockdown America (Verso, 1999)
A history of how Americans came to believe that policing and prisons are the only solutions to social problems.
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Elihu Rosenblatt (editor), Criminal Injustice (South End Press, 1996)
Short pieces on individuals experiences with the criminal justice system.
