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Published: 12 September 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023456-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2345-6
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059028
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5902-8
Published: 29 June 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389743-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8974-3
Published: 27 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060031-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6003-1
... This chapter focuses on the wartime internment of Japanese immigrants, Chamorros, Marshallese, and prisoners of war across Hawai‘i, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands, and furthermore the circulation of prisoners between these camps and those in the US continent. Internment...
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By Juliet Nebolon
Published: 27 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6003-1
... settler colonialism militarization Hawai‘i internment prisoners of war ...
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By Robeson Taj Frazier
Published: 01 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7609-5
... William Worthy Clarence Adams The Korean War Prisoners of War (POWs) State Department Passport Regulations Zhou Enlai ...
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By Robert Gay
Published: 16 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375777-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7577-7
..., in this case the Comando Vermelho, respond to the situation. The chapter also discusses the nature of the Brazilian prison system in general, and the recent increase in the size of the prisoner population due to the country’s “war on drugs.” Comando Vermelho prison conditions organized crime...
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By Robert Gay
Published: 16 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7577-7
... Comando Vermelho prison conditions organized crime corruption war on drugs ...
Published: 07 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7355-1
... M-13 prison Cambodian civil war Lon Nol regime Pol Pot François Bizot ...
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478025887-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2588-7
... in the 1990s and the ethos of austerity informed penal policies, conjugal visits became a target for a vengeful public. Despite opposition from prisoners, their families, and corrections professionals, longer sentences and fewer opportunities for release were followed by harsher prison conditions. As a war...
..., and corrections professionals, longer sentences and fewer opportunities for release were followed by harsher prison conditions. As a war on crime became a war on prisoners, conjugal visits were eliminated. conjugal visits penal harm movement prisoner organizing “country club prisons” ...
Published: 04 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375296-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7529-6
... of the US’s enemies, captured within prisons and again within the frames of photography. Media consumers consent to the war by silently ignoring and/or virtually touring the clear-coated versions of the extralegal institutions established in the name of prosecuting the war on terror and visually consuming...
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376095-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7609-5
... This chapter explores the travels and media of foreign news correspondent William Worthy, the first U.S. newsman to report from China after the establishment of the PRC in 1949. The chapter begins by examining how Worthy recast dominant representations of black prisoners of war and Chinese...
Published: 07 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373551-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7355-1
... the trial, as he claimed to want to cooperate and reveal the truth—claims that, as the testimony of Bizot and other witnesses illustrated, were contested throughout the trial. M-13 prison Cambodian civil war Lon Nol regime Pol Pot François Bizot ...
...Weekend Passes<subtitle>Furloughs and the Risks of Freedom</subtitle> Chapter 7 examines the roots of furlough programs in the Jim Crow South. In the first half of the twentieth century, southern governors and wardens allowed the temporary release of large numbers of prisoners...
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478025887-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2588-7
... Chapter 9 is a close examination of the infamous Willie Horton scandal. With the exploitation of this case by the presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush, the furlough process became the theater for a proxy battle in the war on crime. Whereas a decade earlier furloughs were heralded as a tool...
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By Heath Pearson
Published: 04 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6013-0
... that preserve the labor hierarchy and modes of social control established during the era of chattel slavery. Today’s prisons are not “the same” mode of domination as chattel slavery, Lenape reservations, or World War II labor camps. They do, however, dominate the landscape, structure the labor hierarchy...
Published: 07 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373551-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7355-1
... This chapter traces Duch’s path from M-13, which was closed at the end of the war, to S-21, which was established around August 1975. Son Sen, a leading Democratic Kampuchea official and Duch’s superior, assigned Duch to be the deputy head of S-21 under Nat. During the early phase of S-21...
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By Anette Hoffmann
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5902-8
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5902-8