Golden gulag : prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California / Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gul...

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Main Author: Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 1950-
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007.
Series:American crossroads ; 21.
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Physical Description:xxii, 388 pages : illustrations, charts, map ; 22 cm.
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Prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California.
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