Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration by Heather Schoenfeld

Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Heather Schoenfeld

352 pages 2018

1 edition

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The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial dispa...

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