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The Crime of Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the US
Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle against Control Unit Prisons by Nancy Kurshan (San Francisco: The Freedom Archives), 2013; pp 229, $20.
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer (New York: The New Press), 2013; pp 111, $17.95.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness, revised edition by Michelle Alexander (New York: The New Press), 2012; pp 312, $19.95.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted – VIIIth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States 1791.
“Time is very long within these four walls”. A prisoner in solitary confinement at the Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia to Charles Dickens “American Notes” 1842.
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