Rethinking the American Prison Movement

by Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier

Book Overview

Rethinking the American Prison Movement

provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138786853
• ISBN13: 9781138786851
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"