The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society by John Irwin

The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society

John Irwin

148 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not ye...

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