American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons

"American Gulag takes us inside prisons such as the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, the Corrections Corporation of America's Houston Processing Center, and county jails around the country that profit from contracts to hold INS - now Department of Homeland Security - prisone...

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1. Verfasser: Dow, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2004
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Zusammenfassung:"American Gulag takes us inside prisons such as the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, the Corrections Corporation of America's Houston Processing Center, and county jails around the country that profit from contracts to hold INS - now Department of Homeland Security - prisoners. It contains in-depth profiles of detainees, including Emmy Kutesa, a defector from the Ugandan army who was tortured and then escaped to the United States, where he was imprisoned in Queens and then undertook a hunger strike in protest. To provide a framework for understanding stories like these, Dow gives a brief history of immigration laws and practices in the United States - including the repercussions of September 11 and present-day policies. His book reveals that current immigration detentions are best understood not as a well-intentioned response to terrorism, but rather as part of the larger context of INS secrecy and excessive authority."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 413 S. Ill.
ISBN:0520239423

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