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States of Siege - US Prison Riots, 1971-1986 (Hardcover)
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States of Siege - US Prison Riots, 1971-1986 (Hardcover)
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In the last fifteen years alone, over 300 riots have erupted in US
prisons, with enormous costs: over a hundred lives; uncounted
beatings, rapes and assaults; and the destruction of hundreds of
millions of dollars of prison property. Why and how do these riots
occur? This book provides a fascinating and dramatic account of
five major prison riots, including the Attica rebellion of 1971.
They show how riots have evolved in the past twenty year in
relation to America's changing penal system and society. They draw
on in-depth interviews with rioters, transcripts of post-riot
investigations, and results of a questionnaire about inmate
disturbances in every maximum and medium-security prison in the US.
By demonstrating that the growth of riots depends both on the
state's capabilities and on inmates' pre-existing organizations,
their ethnicity, and the revolts' root causes, the authors expose
the absence of a consistent and realistic policy towards the prison
population of the US.
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