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Managing Prisoners as Problem Populations and the Evolving Nature of Imprisonment: A Convict Perspective

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This article employs a convict perspective toexamine the evolving nature of imprisonment inthe United States. Drawing from the prisonliterature, and placed within the politicaleconomy of the wider society, it utilizespersonal accounts of the author (an ex-convict)and his interactions with prisoners to providea critical look at the changing structures,inequities, and hierarchical social relationsof the prison system and their effect on thelives of people behind bars.

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Terry, C.M. Managing Prisoners as Problem Populations and the Evolving Nature of Imprisonment: A Convict Perspective. Crit Crim 12, 43–66 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CRIT.0000024442.71190.c0

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