Prisons, social control, and political prisoners
Part of a special issue on critical resistance to the prison-industrial complex. The writer discusses prisons, social control, and political prisoners. She argues that most people are sent to prison not because they are “criminals” but because they are alleged to have broken one of an ever-growing c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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Social justice
Year: 2000, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 25-28 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | Part of a special issue on critical resistance to the prison-industrial complex. The writer discusses prisons, social control, and political prisoners. She argues that most people are sent to prison not because they are “criminals” but because they are alleged to have broken one of an ever-growing corpus of laws introduced to exert stricter social control and increase state repression. She contends that the number of political prisoners will increase as it becomes crucial to resist the antihuman system in the U.S. and as social and political movements increase in strength and directly challenge capitalism, globalization, and the increasingly militarized police state. |
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