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Race to Incarcerate
by Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project,The New Press, 1999, 224 pages
Review by Rick Card
If understanding the social, political, and financial issues associated with our nation's massive prison system was a solution in itself, Marc Mauer's book, Race to Incarcerate, would spell the end of the prison industrial ...
Review by Rick Card
If understanding the social, political, and financial issues associated with our nation's massive prison system was a solution in itself, Marc Mauer's book, Race to Incarcerate, would spell the end of the prison industrial ...
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More from this issue:
- California's No Parole Board, by Marvin Mentor
- Guards Fired in Massachusetts Sex Abuse Cases
- Virginia DOC Says 'No Pattern' of Sexual Abuse
- No Qualified Immunity for Unsafe Working Conditions
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Warrant Required Despite Private Prison Contract
- Discovering America As It Is, by Hans Sherrer
- Race to Incarcerate, by Rick Card
- Washington Health and Safety Standards Apply to Prison Work Places
- Washington Prisoner May Not Challenge Underlying Infraction in Four Strike Disciplinary Violation
- Four Florida Prison Guards Face Murder Charges
- U.S. Political Prisoner Info
- Texas Prison Rocked by Guard Killing, Riot
- Two Die during Latest Angola Escape Attempt
- Prison Must Provide Medication Supply to Released Prisoners
- New York Federal District Court Rules Nassau County Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional
- Virginia Court Requires Pro Se Prisoner Plaintiff to Appear Via Video Conference
- Eleven Guards Injured in CA Ruckus
- Flight to Texas Execution 'Not Life Threatening'
- HIV+ Prisoners Not Qualified For Rehabilitation Act Benefits, by James Quigley
- Turkish Political Prisoners Massacred
- NY Prisoner Worker Awarded $90,000 in Accident
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, by Marilyn Buck
- $4.1 Million Award In Suit Over Sexual Assault of Prisoners by Official
- No Immunity for Media Defendants in Ridealong Suit
- Error in Electronic Docket Tolls Appeal Deadline
- ADA Applies to Parole Claims
- Class Action Prisoners Must Show Actual Injury to Maintain Access to Courts Relief
- $105,000 Awarded in Michigan Wrongful Imprisonment Suit
- Long Term Segregation of Security Threat Group Okay
- Seventh Circuit Prisoners Must Exhaust Futile Grievance Remedies
- California PIA Chief, Folsom Mayor, Arrested
- Pretrial Cold Cell Violates Fourteenth Amendment, by Ronald Young
- En Banc Ninth Circuit Upholds Jail Porn Ban, by Paul Wright
- Denial Of Food and Medicine Supports Eighth Amendment Claim, by Ronald Young
- $3,000 Awarded in Wrongful Release Suit
- South Carolina Prisoner Wins Excessive Use of Force Suit Pro Se
- Qualified Immunity Granted for Pre-1996 ADA Violation
- Tenth Circuit Holds Prison Officials Liable for Failing to Provide Religious Meals
- News in Brief
More from Rick Card:
- Book Review: Power, Politics, & Crime, Nov. 15, 2001
- Book Review: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime, July 15, 2001
- The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, July 15, 2000
- Race to Incarcerate, April 15, 2000
- Review: With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America, March 15, 2000
- The Keeper of the Keys, March 15, 2000
- Reviews: Voices From Within the Prison Walls, Feb. 15, 2000
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