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- catalog abstract "This work is an expose 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. The author takes the reader inside "supermax" prisons that deny inmates human contact and reveals official corruption and brutality within U.S. jails. The book also teaches how prisons help to spread infectious diseases throughout society, one of the ways the prison crisis touches even those who have never had a brush with the law.".
- catalog contributor b13223806.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.".
- catalog description "The second toughest sheriff in America -- Becoming a Prison Nation -- Entering the Gates -- The Vulnerable -- The Sanity of the System -- An Unhealthy Situtation -- Women behind Bars -- Supermax -- Short-Term Problems -- Money, Money, Money -- After Prison -- Some Modest Suggestions.".
- catalog description "This work is an expose 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. The author takes the reader inside "supermax" prisons that deny inmates human contact and reveals official corruption and brutality within U.S. jails. The book also teaches how prisons help to spread infectious diseases throughout society, one of the ways the prison crisis touches even those who have never had a brush with the law.".
- catalog extent "xix, 264 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Gates of injustice.".
- catalog identifier "0131427911".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gates of injustice.".
- catalog isPartOf "Financial Times Prentice Hall books".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Upper Saddle River, NJ : Financial Times Prentice Hall,".
- catalog relation "Gates of injustice.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "365/.973 22".
- catalog subject "HV9471 .E37 2004".
- catalog subject "Imprisonment United States.".
- catalog subject "Prisoners United States.".
- catalog subject "Prisons United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The second toughest sheriff in America -- Becoming a Prison Nation -- Entering the Gates -- The Vulnerable -- The Sanity of the System -- An Unhealthy Situtation -- Women behind Bars -- Supermax -- Short-Term Problems -- Money, Money, Money -- After Prison -- Some Modest Suggestions.".
- catalog title "Gates of injustice : the crisis in America's prisons / Alan Elsner.".
- catalog type "text".