Bibliography

Crimes of punishment : America’s culture of violence / Theodore L. Dorpat.
New York : Algora Pub., c2007.

A psychoanalytic perspective on the effects of punishment, the cycle of violence, limitations of prison reform, and a comparison of crimes of the poor and crimes of the rich.

Inequality : social class and its consequences / edited by D. Stanley Eitzen and Janis E. Johnston.

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2007

Social condtions since the 1980s
Poverty and Crime
Social Stratification in America

Prison profiteers : who makes money from mass incarceration / edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright.
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.

The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley ; foreword by Attallah Shabazz ; introduction by M.S. Handler ; epilogue by Alex Haley ; afterword by Ossie Davis. published New York : Ballantine Books, c1999

There is a great and important part in this autobiography where Malcolm X touches upon his experience in prison and gives a lot of insight of the nature of imprisonment in America.

http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/locations/mcac.shtml

Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center website. This is the Prison which I am focusing on. It is Baltimore's SuperMax prison.

paper 2 proposal

For paper 2, I have chose to write about prisons in America. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and just two years ago was recorded with 7 million people imprisoned. China is second with 1.5 million people behind bars although China has four times the population of the U.S.
I would like to breakdown this cultural landscape by exploring the politics, sociology, psychology, and moral issues surrounding the prison.
What does the physical structure of the prison do to the mind of the inmate? Why is the U.S. incarceration so drastically high?

Argument:

American prisons are a flawed system where there is more money, time, and effort spent, putting Americans in jail, rather than a system which would see reduced crime and keeping people out.