American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons
Title:
American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons
Author:
Dow, Mark.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004
Physical Description:
xiii, 413 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West: philosophy and despair -- Dead time.
Reading Level:
1210 Lexile.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9780520239425
Format :
Book
