Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
by
John M. Eason
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns.
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