The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward- 9781608468997, paperback

Name: The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward- 9781608468997, paperback
Brand: Haymarket Books

Haymarket Books

The Long Term\nby Beth Ritchie\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Beth Ritchie\nTitle: The Long Term\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Politics and government\nPublisher: Haymarket Books\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781608468997\nISBN-10: 1608468992\nRRP: \u00A316.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLong Term Offenders, or LTOs, is the state's term for those it condemns to effective death by imprisonment. Often serving sentences of sixty to eighty years, LTOs bear the brunt of the bipartisan embrace of mass incarceration heralded by the 'tough on crime' agenda of the 1990s and 2000s. Like the rest of the United States' prison population they are disproportionately poor and no.