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1. The imprisonment binge -- The punitive swing -- Punishment in society -- Making law -- Imprisonment as punishment -- Origins of the prison -- 2. American prisons -- England's fatal experiment -- The penitentiary -- Auburn -- Discipline -- Social life -- Pennsylvania -- Hard labor -- The prisons -- Tasks -- Control -- Social organization -- Big houses -- The convict code -- Correctional institutions -- Formal routine -- Informal prisoner social organization -- Tips and cliques -- Rehabilitation and social order -- Dismantling the rehabilitative ideal -- Community corrections -- Prisons in turmoil -- Lowriders -- The punitive swing -- 3. The warehouse prison -- The structure of the new prison -- Architectural plan -- Administrative regimens -- Conflict and divisions -- Guard culture -- Prisoners' views of guards -- Guarding styles -- Solano -- Programs at Solano -- Education -- Vocational training -- Voluntary programs -- Substance abuse programs -- Prison industry authority -- Conclusions -- 4. Doing time in Solano -- The prisoners -- Race -- Criminal identity -- Sentence length -- Prisoner social organization -- Détent -- Prisoner groups -- Prison adaptive modes -- The mix -- Doing time -- Withdrawal -- Self-improvement -- Conclusions -- 5. The supermax -- Solitary and segregation -- Turmoil in lockup -- New supermax prisons -- Doing time in a supermax -- Social organization -- Life in SHU (secure housing units) -- SHU prisoners -- SHU routine -- The consequences of lockup -- The self-fulfilling prophecy -- Psychological impairment -- Social impairment -- 6. Harm -- Health and disease -- Psychological damage -- Loss of agency -- Assaults on the self -- Damage to sexual orientation -- Anger, frustration, and the sense of injustice -- Chickenshit rules -- Degradation -- Economic exploitation -- Prisonization -- Conclusions -- 7. Reentry -- The initial impact of reentry -- Getting by -- Finding a place to live -- Finding work -- Job placement program -- Parolee unemployment -- Dealing with parole -- Styles of parole supervision -- Patterns of adjustment after prison -- Failure -- Doing good -- Dependency -- Drifting on the edge -- Dereliction -- 'Laying low' |
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8. Disposal of the new 'dangerous class' -- The war on crime -- The change in employment opportunities -- The failed war on poverty -- The new poor -- The profit squeeze -- The deindustrialization of America -- Zapping labor -- Demise of the radical 'movements' -- The new ghetto -- Ghetto youth -- The crime wave and race -- Conservatives respond to the new poor -- Rediscovery of the 'criminal type' -- Reagan and the crime issue -- Controlling the new ghetto -- The new ghetto as a crime cauldron -- Social dynamite -- 9. Aftermath -- Collateral damage -- Diversion of tax money to prisons -- Social costs -- Vindictiveness -- Broad sweep of the wars on crime and drugs -- Loss of civil rights -- The prison-industrial complex -- New interest groups -- Reforming criminal justice -- Afterword : the case of the women / Barbara Owen -- Women and the imprisonment binge -- Women's pathways to prison -- The war on drugs as a war on women -- Punishment in society : making law -- History of the imprisonment of women -- The reformatory and the correctional institution -- The contemporary prison -- The mix -- Gendered harm and the contemporary prison -- Imprisoning women -- Harm and the pains of imprisonment -- Privacy -- Separation from children -- Pregnant women -- Clothing and 'hygiene' -- Dignity -- Programming -- Mental and physical health -- Psychological damage -- Rule enforcement -- Physical and psychological safety -- Reentry and the gendered problems of parole -- Relationships with parole officers -- Conclusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-303) and indexes. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Irwin, John, 1929- Warehouse prison. Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub. Co., c2005 |
| LCCN | 2004007917 |
| ISBN | 1931719357 |
| ISBN | 9781931719353 |
