Ira Gorman Deitrick

Ramjoo's Diaries, 1922-1929

• Author(s): Ramjoo Abdulla

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1979
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Biographical Record of the Graduates and Non-graduates of the Classes of 1822-1962 Inclusive

• Author(s): Amherst College

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1963
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Amherst College Biographical Record, 1963; Biographical Record of the Graduates and Non-graduates of the Classes of 1822-1962 Inclusive

• Author(s): Amherst College

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1963
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• Publisher: Unknown

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California Lawyers

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2002-07
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Golden Gulag

• Author(s): Ruth Wilson Gilmore

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007-01-08
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• Publisher: Univ of California Press

Since 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 sta...