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Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime.Irwin, John is the author of 'Jail Managing the Underclass in American Society', published 1992 under ISBN 9780520060326 and ISBN 0520060326.
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