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Crime United States POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism Poor Government policy United States Poor United States Poverty Government policy United States Prisoners United States Prisons United States Social classes United States United States United States Social conditions 20th centurySummary: Are prisons supposed to rehabilitate convicts, punish them, or simply keep them off the streets? The answer depends on who is being asked. This program explores the current state of prisons in America and examines their conflicting mandates. The Directors of the National Prison Project of the ACLU and the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, the Governor of South Dakota, an Arizona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Following the activities of gang members and undercover agents, this program investigates a group that some law enforcement experts have informally termed the New Mafia-a super-violent criminal franchise rooted in both El Salvador and the United States, known as MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha. The film profiles two Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents who infiltrated the gang, re-creates a deep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Bauer, Shane
Summary: "A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. IIn 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Krammer, Arnold
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarborough House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 KRAMurray, Stuart
Summary: Presents a visual guide to the people, battles, and events of America's war for independence, and includes explanatory text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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Summary: As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulations against behavior including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 EDEHedges, Chris.
Summary: "In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco bring us a searing on-the-ground report on the crisis gripping underclass America and crime-ridden poverty enclaves--in prisons, urban slums, and rural communities--metastasizing around the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 HEDSummary: Overview: At 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation's fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated Americans chronicling their experience inside. In essays as moving as they are eloquent, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013