TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilmore,Ruth Wilson
TI  - Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
T2  - American Crossroads Series
SN  - 9780520938038
AV  - HV9475.C2.G73 2007eb 
U1  - 365/.9794 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Prisons -- California
KW  - Prisons -- Economic aspects -- California
KW  - Imprisonment -- California
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of -- California
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California
KW  - Minorities -- California
KW  - California -- Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue: The Bus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The California Political Economy -- 3. The Prison Fix -- 4. Crime, Croplands, and Capitalism -- 5. Mothers Reclaiming Our Children -- 6. What Is to Be Done? -- Epilogue: Another Bus -- Notes -- Bibliography and References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - 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 state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California's economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results--a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law--pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state's commitment to prison expansion
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