Explains how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. This book 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.[...]
An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer, "The Struggle Within" discusses how mass imprisonment has been a state-sponsered tool of repression deployed against diverse, left-wing social movements over the last 50 years. Author Dan Berger goes on to examine some of the most dynamic social move[...]