Documents
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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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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.
