The Pains of Mass Imprisonment

An ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry, this new edition dramatically expands and revises the previous edition to include more empirical data, significant engagement with current debates and scholarship, and extended pedagogical and learning materials.

This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel do this by weaving together empirical research on prisons with stories that rely on the voices and lived experiences of people who are locked up. This is an ideal book for courses in corrections, social problems, criminology, and prisoner re-entry. The new edition of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment dramatically expands and revises the previous edition to include more empirical data, significant engagement with current debates and scholarship, and extended pedagogical and learning materials.

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Benjamin Fleury-Steiner is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. For more than two decades, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on inequality, mass imprisonment, and the death penalty. Fleury-Steiner is the author of more than 30 scholarly journal and law review articles and numerous books, including Jurors' Stories of Death: How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality; Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison; and The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society (co-edited with Austin Sarat).

Jamie Longazel is Associate Professor of Law and Society at John Jay College and is on the International Migration Studies faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and co-editor (with Miranda Cady Hallett) of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Containment
2. Exploitation (with Candice Duncan, Meagan Heatherton, Jamella Richmond, and Emily Teresa Rodriguez)
3. Coercion (with Mackenzie Niness)
4. Isolation
5. Brutality
6. The Pains of Migrant Imprisonment