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American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment UPDATE:Default Title and the modern nation stateAuthor Contributor(s): Abramsky, Sasha Publisher: Beacon Press Date: 5 1 2008 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In this disturbing yet elegant expos of U. S. penitentiaries and their surrounding communities, Sasha Abramsky shows how American prisons have abandoned their long held ideal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. After surveying our current state of affairs life sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditions for inmates, the