Common mythology has it that there are no political prisoners in the United States, the land of the free. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The argument could be made that a good portion of the nearly two million US citizens in prison are political prisoners, that is, that their imprisonment serves political purpose. […]
Read More... Filed in Book reviewsOne Nation Under Lockdown LOCKDOWN AMERICA Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis By Christian Parenti Verso Press, 284 pages, price $25 cloth ISBN 1-85984-718-8 Release Date September 1999 How, precisely, do you define a police state? Is it the number of police per capita? How about the number of prisons? Police use of […]
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