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Border Militarizonaion And Health: Violience, Death And Security In Mexico And The United States, Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martinez, Scott Whiteford, Alison Lee
Border Militarizonaion And Health: Violience, Death And Security In Mexico And The United States, Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martinez, Scott Whiteford, Alison Lee
Scott Whiteford
Authors examine violence as a health issue on the U.S./Mexico border, with a special focus on border enforcement and security.
'Security Here Is Not Safe': Violence, Punishment, & Space In The Contemporary U.S. Penitentiary, Karen M. Morin
'Security Here Is Not Safe': Violence, Punishment, & Space In The Contemporary U.S. Penitentiary, Karen M. Morin
Karen M. Morin
The US penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was retrofitted in 2008 to offer the country’s first federal Special Management Unit (SMU) program of its kind. This model SMU is designed for federal inmates from around the country identified as the most intractably troublesome, and features double-celling of inmates in tiny spaces, in 23-hour or 24-hour a day lockdown, requiring them to pass through a two-year program of readjustment. These spatial tactics, and the philosophy of punishment underlying them, contrast with the modern reform ideals upon which the prison was designed and built in 1932. The SMU represents the latest punitive phase …