Jails: The Ultimate Ghetto

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Anchor Books, 1976 - Social Science - 508 pages
The author describes how American jails have come to serve as holding tanks for the indigent, and often, innocent men who are subjected to violence, overcrowding and sexual assault.

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The Poorhouses of the Twentieth Century
29
CONFINEMENT OF THE SICK
87
NARCOTICS ADDICTS IN JAIL
121
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