The Pains of Mass Imprisonment

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Jamie G Longazel, Jamie Longazel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781138137899
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134468041
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

This concise and engaging book presents a critical perspective on the correctional system and the process of incarceration in the United States. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel emphasize the magnitude of mass imprisonment in the United States, especially of people of color, not by objective statistics and trends, but by the voices and lived experiences of individuals who live their harsh conditions on a daily basis. This is an ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry.

Index

Page numbers followed by ‘f’ refer to figures and followed by ‘t’ refer to tables.

A

Abu Ghraib prison 48–49

aging prison population 15–16

Alexander, Michelle 6

All Alone in the World 19–20

Andrews, William 28

Arizona 53

Arpaio, Joe 36, 53

B

Bernstein, Nell 19–20

Blacks: brutal targeting by white guards 51; children with an incarcerated parent 6, 19–20; numbers in prison 4–6, 5f; in prison in Louisiana 25; “war on crime” a war on poor 6

Bolden, Dan 18

BP Deepwater Horizon clean up 25–26

Brown v. Plata 14, 15, 62

brutality: a pain of mass imprisonment characterized by guards inflicting violence upon captives, often out of retaliation 8, 9, 48–55; case studies 49–50; deaths as a result of 52, 53; documented across US 52–53; military prisons overseas based on domestic prison 48–49; nexus of violent retaliation and 53–54; normalcy in prisons 51–53

Buchanan, Kim Shayo 33

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 3, 5, 19, 35

Burton-Rose, Daniel 43–44

Bush, George H.W. 4

Bush, George W. 35

C

Calhoun, Avery 34

California: fatal brutality in prisons 52; hunger strikes 56–57, 58; prisoner health care 12–14, 15; restriction of movement crisis 15, 45; “Three Strikes” law 3; women prisoners in 32

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDRC) 56

Calipatria Prison, California 56

Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR) 60

children: assaults in private prisons on 29; commodification of children convicted of crimes 28–29; with an incarcerated parent 6, 19–20

Civil Rights Movement: a social movement dedicated to the cause of equality before the law, most notably pertaining to race relations in the United States 4

Clark, Thomas 49–50

Clear, Todd 4

coercion: a pain of mass imprisonment characterized by prison guards forcing female prisoners to engage in sex through the use of force or intimidation 8, 9, 30–38; “consensual” relations 31, 34; legislation in response to 35; pregnancy policies 36–37; rape and retaliation case studies 31–33; and sexual violence 33–34

coercive control: a form of sexual abuse whereby female victims are routinely controlled usually by male aggressors 31, 34–35, 36

Coleman, Heather 34

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction: Penal Oppression
• I. Containment
• II. Exploitation
• III. Coercion
• IV. Isolation
• V. Brutality
• Conclusion: Desperation
• Appendix: Rights Activism
• Bibliography
• Index