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CCCX 215 | People, Power, and Narrative American Prisons
This class will examine why and how the United States relies on mass detention as a strategy to impose order, and how the current judicial system has relegated millions of poor people to a second-class status.
Tracing both the history of the prison and the very idea of imprisonment in the United States, this book provides a critical overview of American prisons and considers their past, their present and directions for the future.
Through personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, this offers an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, remake life after prison; and more.
Examines the issues surrounding imprisonment from a variety of international perspectives. The purpose of imprisonment -- Sentencing and imprisonment -- Prison conditions -- Political prisoners
Aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework. Issues of race, gender, and class are fully integrated throughout in order to demonstrate the complexity of the implementation and intended results of incarceration. The Encyclopedia contains biographies, articles describing important legal statutes, and detailed and authoritative descriptions of the major prisons in the United States.
Collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons-- demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration.
How one state has been trying new reforms that decrease the prison population and save money.
Produced by Frank Carlson in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
An analysis of the forces that have shaped America. First-person narratives, photos, film footage, and documents reveal the human side of American history -- how historical figures affected events, and the impact of these events on citizens' lives. The Industrial Revolution has its dark side, and the tumultuous events of the period touch off intense and often thrilling reform movement.