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A Day at the Prison Fun Park
"Have you guys been here before?" a female high schooler asks two young guys in baseball caps and shorts. "We have," she goes on. "We liked it so much we came back a second time." I hear an older man saying to his family, with just a tinge of irony, …
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More from this issue:
- A Day at the Prison Fun Park, by Daniel Burton-Rose
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- State Police Investigate Illinois Prison Industry
- Arizona Incarceration Cost Setoff Law Upheld
- Valdes Murder Witness Exiled, Muzzled
- Amnesty International Calls for Stun Belt Ban, by Julia Lutsky
- Drug Seizures Pay for Death Celebrations
- California Governor Vetoes Media Access Bill
- News in Brief
- Florida DOC Curtails Use of Stun Belts
- BOP Can't Keep Prisoner Who Refuses to Pay Fine Indefinitely
- Washington Municipalities Liable for Attacks by Probationers
More from Daniel Burton-Rose:
- A Day at the Prison Fun Park, Jan. 15, 2000
- The Sounding Tree: Voices Along the Razor Wire, by Lee Dickenson (Book Review), May 15, 1999
- Book Review: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison, March 15, 1999
- Book Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, March 15, 1999
- Our Sisters' Keepers, Feb. 15, 1999
- Prison Writing in 20th-Century America (Book Review), Dec. 15, 1998
- The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission (Book Review), Aug. 15, 1998
- The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice, Aug. 15, 1998
- The Tough-On-Crime Myth: Real Solutions to Cut Crime, Aug. 15, 1998
- Human Rights Watch Condemns Indiana Control Units, June 15, 1998
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