A Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York
Author: New York State Library
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 706
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Author: New York State Library
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 706
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 836
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes information from the Checklist of official publications of the State of New York.
Author: Sasha Abramsky
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 225
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-01-08
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0520938038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.
Author: Michael V. Reagen
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ted McCoy
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1926836960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe success and failure of prison reform and the corresponding social history of punishment in Canada.
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas E. Dewey
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angela Y. Davis
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-04
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1609801040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.
Author: Magda Ismail Abdel Mohsin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 113758128X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents successful case studies in Muslim and Muslim minority countries that have revolutionized the redevelopment of idle waqf properties into productive land trusts. The revival of this institution over the last two decades shows the growing optimism in galvanizing the socioeconomic role of waqf by adopting its flexible shariah measures. Innovative ways of financing redevelopment allow Muslims to extend these roles to include new beneficiaries. New uses for these properties include providing services to the community, opening jobs for the majority of people, funding small entrepreneurs, educating the masses, providing health care, and sheltering the poor and needy. Countries under study include Sudan, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Iran. Additionally, the book examines the International Development Bank's role in financing the development old waqf properties in different countries.