American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow.
American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
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N365.40973/1
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 413 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 quie...
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2004.
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Summary
"American Gulag takes us inside prisons such as the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, the Corrections Corporation of America's Houston Processing Center, and county jails around the country that profit from contracts to hold INS - now Department of Homeland Security - prisoners. It contains in-depth profiles of detainees, including Em...
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American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow.
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Inside U.S. immigration prisons.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-381) and index.
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c2004.
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N365.40973/1
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74VKDLxlGB7A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKDLxlGB7A
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ISBN
0520239423 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520239425 (cloth : alk. paper)
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365.4
365.40973
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991019004389702626
