The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America,
From Slave Passes to the War on Terror

by Christian Parenti, (Basic Books, 2003) 273 pp., $24.95 cloth


Review by Scott Christianson


Big Brother is watching. He may not be able to find Osama Bin Laden or identify the Anthrax Attacker, but he sure …

The unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Overton v. Bazzetta, upholding Michigan's punitive restrictions on prisoners' visiting rights, showed again how antagonistic the Rehnquist Court is toward prisoners' rights compared to the Burger Court. But the Court's two most conservative justices showed they would like the clock …