Assignment 07: human rights and the law
Due Sunday, March 26th, by midnight. Word count: 400 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. If you paraphrase, make sure to include the proper citation.
In her work, Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues that the expanding prison population should be connected to a restructuring of the state. In your own words, explain the “crisis” and “surplus” that Gilmore joins to the prison population in the U.S. (of the more than 2 million people living in prisons in 1999).
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