Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Second Edition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Second Edition

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

263 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced

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Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has, what a state analyst called, "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." The first detailed explanation of California's expanding prison popula...

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