American Gulag - Inside U.s. Immigration Prisons

Informationen zum Autor Mark Dow is a freelance writer and poet whose work has appeared in the Miami Herald! The Progressive! Boston Review! Index on Censorship! Prison Legal News! and numerous literary publications. He is coeditor of Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime (2002). Klappentext "Prisoners who have had no trial! guards who humiliate and assault them: It sounds like a scene from Stalin's U.S.S.R.! but it is a reality in the United States today. American Gulag tells the horrifying story of men! women and children detained indefinitely by U.S. immigration officials as it has never been told before. It sounds an alarm for us all."-Anthony Lewis! author of Gideon's Trumpet "Through the eyes and ears of immigration prisoners! their lawyers! and their jailers! Mark Dow sheds light on the netherworld of immigration detention! and compels us to confront how we treat the most vulnerable and voiceless among us. His work is a clarion call for justice from behind bars by those who have been sentenced to serve time without having ever committed a crime." David Cole! author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism Zusammenfassung A history of immigration laws and practices in the United States. It reveals immigration detentions that are understood not as a well-intentioned response to terrorism but rather as part of the larger context of INS secrecy and authority. It exposes the story of a cruel prison system that is operating with a lack of accountability. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: "Let This Be Home" 1. Invisibility! Intimidation! and the INS 2. September 11: Secrecy! Disruption! and Continuity 3. Another World! Another Nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center 4. "Enforcement Means You're Brutal" 5. The World's First Private Prison 6. "Keeping Quiet Means Deny": A Hunger Strike in Queens 7. The Art of Jailing 8. "Criminal Aliens" and Criminal Agents 9. Siege! Shackles! Climate! Design 10. "Speak to Every Media": Resistance! Repression! and the Making of a Prisoner 11. Good and Evil in New England 12. Out West: Philosophy and Despair 13. Dead Time 14. Mariel Cubans: Abandoned! Again and Again Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Mark Dow, Dow Mark
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2005
• EAN: 9780520246690
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24669-0
• No. of pages: 426
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Family & health, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Crime and criminology