ITEM OVERVIEW
Why is criminal "justice" so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown. If you are at all interested in why California spends more on prisons than on education, or that Starbucks, Jansport, and Microsoft all use prison labor to package their products, you'll probably want to get this. If you don't know the story of the SWAT teams now employed by mid-sized cities, this could be your survival manual.
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