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Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2004
by Silja JA Talvi
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2004, page 8
Edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, The New Press, 2002, 368 pgs.
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Reviews,
Prisoner Privileges,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Parole,
Immigration,
Access to Media.
Location:
United States of America.
Review by Silja J.A. Talvi
Mass imprisonment, according to
criminal justice experts Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, is the direct outgrowth of social and legal policies that have, for the past two decades, firmly favored incarceration over …
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