TY - BOOK AU - Rosen,Jonathan D. AU - Brienen,Marten W. TI - Prisons in the Americas in the twenty first century: a human dumping ground T2 - Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century SN - 9780739191361 AV - HV8501 .P757 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Prisons KW - America KW - Imprisonment KW - Corrections KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; General trends of prisons in the Americas; Astrid Arrará́s and Emily D. Bello-Pardo --; Broken systems: prisons and prison gangs in California and the United States; Susan A. Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen --; The penitentiary system in Mexico: an institution permeated by corruption and controlled by organized crime; Roberto Zepeda Martinez --; Drugs, crime and prisons in Guatemala; Tamara Rice Lave --; Haiti: prisons, organized crime, and drug trafficking; Christa L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor --; Retribution vs. reintegration: the Trinidad and Tobago reality; Dianne Williams and Randy Seepersad --; Organized chaos: Venezuela's prison crisis; Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamelá --; Drugs and prisons: the slippery road to the criminalization of drugs in Ecuador; Adrián Bonilla and Nashira Chávez --; A special kind of hell: the Bolivian penal system; Marten W. Brienen --; Drugs and the prison crisis in Peru; Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert G. --; Beyond overcrowding: the decline of the Brazilian penitentiary system; Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich --; The drug-crime-prison nexus: what the U.S. experience suggests for Argentina; Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastián A. Cutrona --; Prison reform: an international solution; W. Andy Knight; 2; b UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=984537&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -