The big house in a small town : prisons, communities, and economics in rural America

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The big house in a small town : prisons, communities, and economics in rural America

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prisons, communities, and economics in rural America

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Eric J. Williams

Language

eng

Summary

A recent study by the Urban Institute estimates that one-third of all counties in the United States house a prison, and that our prison and jail population is now over 2.1 million. Another report indicates that more than 97 percent of all U.S. prisoners are eventually released, and communities are absorbing nearly 650,000 formerly incarcerated individuals each year. These figures are particularly alarming considering the fact that rural communities are using prisons as economic development vehicles without fully understanding the effects of these jails on the area
This book is the result of author Eric J. Williams's ground-level research about the effects of prisons upon two rural American communities that lobbied to host maximum security prisons. Through hundreds of interviews conducted while living in Florence, Colorado, and Beeville, Texas, Williams offers the perspective of local residents on all sides of the issue, as well as a social history told mainly from the standpoint of those who lobbied for the prisons. --Book Jacket

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N$T

Dewey number

365/.973

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index present

LC call number

HV9466

LC item number

.W55 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

HV9466

NAL item number

.W55 2011eb

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