Gates of Injustice The Crisis in America's Prisons
, by Elsner, Alan
- ISBN: 9780131881792 | 0131881795
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/6/2006
Elsner provides new insight into the powerful political and social forces driving imprisonment in America. Most importantly, he charts a path for reform . . . one that could make America not merely more humane, but safer. Gates of Injustice is a compelling exposi of the U.S. prison system: it tells how more than 2 million Americans came to be incarcerated . . . what it's really like on the inside . . . and how a giant "prison-industrial complex" promotes imprisonment over other solutions. Alan Elsner paints a terrifying picture of how our prisons really work. You'll hear how race-based gangs control institutions and prey on the weak and how a rape epidemic has swept the U.S. prison system. You'll discover the plight of 300,000 mentally ill prisoners, many abandoned to suffer with grossly inadequate medical care. Elsner takes you inside "supermax" prisons that deny inmates human contact and reveals official corruption and brutality within U.S. jails.
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