Biography: Sasha Abramsky has written for The Atlantic, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. The author of Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House and Hard Time Blues: How Politics Built a Prison Nation, he has also reported on U.S. prisons for Human Rights Watch. He lives in Sacramento, California.

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American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment Author: Sasha Abramsky Binding Information: Paperback  Trade Code: 00T Price: $17.00 In stock. In this disturbing yet elegant exposé of U.S. penitentiaries and their surrounding communities, Sasha Abramsky shows how American prisons have abandoned their long-held ideal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. After surveying our current state of affairs-life sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions for inmates, the growth of private prisons, the treatment of juveniles-Abramsky argues that our punitive policies are not only inhuman but deeply counterproductive.

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American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment Author: Sasha Abramsky Binding Information: Cloth  Trade Code: 00C Price: $25.95 In stock.

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