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Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

A Human Dumping Ground
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This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy pre-trial detention and the often abysmal living conditions in these institutions. Taken together, this comprises the first comparative overview of the use and abuse of prisons in the Americas.
Ch 1: General Trends in Prisons in the Americas, Astrid Arraras and Emily D. Bello-Pardo North America Ch 2. Broken Systems: Prisons and Prison Gangs in California and the United States, Susan Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen Ch 3: The Penitentiary System in Mexico: An Institution Permeated by Corruption and Controlled by Organized Crime, Roberto Zepeda Martinez Central America Ch 4: Drugs, Crime, and Prisons in Guatemala, Tamara Rice Lave The Caribbean Ch 5: Haiti: Prisons, Organized Crime, and Drug Trafficking, Christa L. Remington & Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor Ch 6: Retribution vs. Reintegration: The Trinidad and Tobago Reality, Dianne Williams and Randy Seepersad The Andean Region Ch 7: An Organized Chaos: Venezuela's Prison Crisis, Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamela Ch 8: Drugs and Prisons: the Slippery Road to the Criminalization of Drugs in Ecuador, Adrian Bonilla and Nashira Chavez Ch 9: A Special Kind of Hell: The Bolivian Penal, System Marten W. Brienen Ch 10: Drugs and the Prison Crisis in Peru, Lucia Dammert and Manuel Dammert Guardia The Southern Cone Ch 11: Beyond Overcrowding: the Decline of the Brazilian Penitentiary System, Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich Ch 12: The Drug-Crime-Prison Nexus: What the U. S. Experience Suggests to Argentina, Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastian Cutrona An International Solution Ch 13: Prison Reform: An International Solution, W. Andy Knight
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