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By John Irwin

Combining broad interviews together with his personal event as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a robust and photo description of the big-city penal complex. in contrast to prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails basically confine arrested people now not but charged or convicted of any critical crime. Irwin argues that instead of controlling the disreputable, reformatory disorients and degrades those humans, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble classification. In a forceful end, Irwin addresses the difficulty of reformatory reform and the problem of social keep watch over demanded by way of society. Reissued greater than 20 years after its preliminary e-book with a brand new foreword via Jonathon Simon, The penal complex remains a rare account of the function jails play in America’s drawback of mass incarceration.

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He finished the eleventh grade. " He lives in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood filled with petty street hustlers , and currently tries to make a living selling bogus hash to strangers around Union Square (the center of the downtown shopping area). He has been arrested six or seven times for this activity in the last couple of years. This time he had sold some bogus hash to a man , and immediately two plainclothes police officers arrested him. They charged him with three marijuana felonies: possession, sale, and possession for sale.

Lt. B. 00 . Lt. B. stopped and looked eastward when R. approached Lt. B. and took the tan envelope out of the pocket. R. was arrested by Sergeant W. and transported to the Hall of Justice where he was booked on the above charge . Sweeps Occasionally the police set out to round up an entire category of rabble in order to clean up the streets in an area. For example, the Las Vegas police went after street prostitutes in March 1981. "Almost 300 prostitutes were arrested and taken to jail during the first 48 hours of a police crack-down on Las Vegas Strip prostitution, Assistant Sheriff Jere Vanek said yesterday.

Told me that while he was standing outside of Studio West dance hall, he engaged in a conversation with suspect no. I . Suspect no. I informed him that a friend of his, suspect no: 3, a white female, was without a date and asked him if he'd accompany them and be her escort. Suspect no. I opened the passenger door, where L. sat . L. looked up at him and saw what he described as a . 38 revolver pistol in the suspect's hand pointing at him. " L. complied, fearing for his life . L. handed suspect no.

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