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States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2001
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2001, page 22
Edited by Joy James. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). 352 Pages
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Gang Policies,
Reviews,
Crime/Demographics,
Crime.
Location:
United States of America.
Reviewed by Mumia AbuJamal
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once opined that the nature of a civilization could be discerned by examining its prisons. If that is so, James has assembled a wide variety of essays that are reflecting ...
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