{"product_id":"sick-justice-inside-the-american-gulag-9781612344874","title":"Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag","description":"In America, 2.3 million people--a population about the size of Houston's, the country's fourth-largest city--live behind bars. \u003ci\u003eSick Justice\u003c\/i\u003e explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America's prisons and shows the real reasons that disproportionate numbers of minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill end up there. Goldman dissects the widespread phenomenon of jailing for profit, the outsized power of prison guards' unions, California's exceptionally rigid three-strikes law, the ineffective and never-ending war on drugs, the closing of mental health institutions across the country, and other blunders and avaricious practices that have brought us to this point. \u003ci\u003eSick Justice\u003c\/i\u003e tells a big, gripping story that's long overdue. By illuminating the system's brutality and greed and the prisoners' gratuitous suffering, the book aims to be a catalyst for reform, complementing the work of the Innocence Project and mirroring the effects of Michael Harrington's \u003ci\u003eThe Other America: Poverty in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), which became the driving force behind the war on poverty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Potomac Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612344874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Ivan G. Goldman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059857359029,"sku":"9781612344874","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1f49d0fd-e664-430c-aa15-db82182e2497.jpg?v=1690299598","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sick-justice-inside-the-american-gulag-9781612344874","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}