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Ruth Wilson Gilmore

“the CDC has consistently forecast high growth in highest-security (Level IV) prisoners, and, according to both the Blue Ribbon Commission on Prison Population Management (1990) and Rudman and Berthelsen (reporting to the legislature in 1991), it consolidated the tendency to classify those in custody as higher risks than they might actually be.27 Level IV beds are the most expensive to build; and Level IV prisoners are the most expensive to maintain, because of low guard-prisoner ratios. In 1991, California experienced what”

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads Book 21) Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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