TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Jonathan D.
AU  - Brienen,Marten W.
AU  - Arrarás,Astrid
AU  - Bello-Pardo,Emily D.
AU  - Bonilla,Adrián
AU  - Chávez,Nashira
AU  - Cutrona,Sebastián A.
AU  - Dammert,Lucía
AU  - Dammert Guardia,Manuel
AU  - DerGhougassian,Khatchik
TI  - Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century: A Human Dumping Ground
T2  - Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century Series
SN  - 9780739191361
AV  - HV8501 -- .P75 2015eb 
U1  - 365/.97 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Imprisonment -- America
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter One: General Trends of Prisons in the Americas -- Chapter Two: Broken Systems -- Chapter Three: The Penitentiary System in Mexico -- Chapter Four: Drugs, Crime, and Prisons in Guatemala -- Chapter Five: Haiti -- Chapter Six: Retribution vs. Reintegration -- Chapter Seven: Organized Chaos -- Chapter Eight: Drugs and Prisons -- Chapter Nine: A Special Kind of Hell -- Chapter Ten: Drugs and the Prison Crisis in Peru -- Chapter Eleven: Beyond Overcrowding -- Chapter Twelve: The Drug-Crime-Prison Nexus -- Chapter Thirteen: Prison Reform -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors
N2  - This book analyzes the prison systems in the Americas in the twenty-first century. Leading experts discuss the state of the prison systems in their respective countries, focusing on trends of overcrowding, high recidivism rates, harsh drug laws, human rights, and the relationship between prisons, drug trafficking, and organized crime
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ER  -