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Sick justice : inside the American Gulag / Ivan G. Goldman.

by Goldman, Ivan G.

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Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2013.

Prisons -- United States.

Corrections -- United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

9781612344874 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

1612344879 (hardcover : alk. paper)

xiii, 249 pages ; 24 cm

The mostly invisible catastrophe -- Fear, loathing, and guns -- Informants -- The war on drugs (and reason) -- The death of Rachel Hoffman -- Three strikes and you're out -- Divine right prosecutors -- The innocent and the dead -- Walking the "toughest beat" in Guccis -- Mongo and Squeaky -- Prison privateers and jailing for cash -- Captive employees -- Deporting for cash -- The war against the poor (and middle class) -- Crazy consquences -- Crime academies, rape, sex slaves, infection, death -- The insanity of mental health practices -- Legacy inmates -- "The future".

"In America, 2.3 million people--a population about the size of Houston's, the country's fourth-largest city--live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America's prisons and shows the real reasons that disproportionate numbers of minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill end up there. Goldman dissects the widespread phenomenon of jailing for profit, the outsized power of prison guards' unions, California's exceptionally rigid three-strikes law, the ineffective and never-ending war on drugs, the closing of mental health institutions across the country, and other blunders and avaricious practices that have brought us to this point. Sick Justice tells a big, gripping story that's long overdue. By illuminating the system's brutality and greed and the prisoners' gratuitous suffering, the book aims to be a catalyst for reform, complementing the work of the Innocence Project and mirroring the effects of Michael Harrington's The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), which became the driving force behind the war on poverty."--Publisher's website.

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