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The Jail: Managing the Underclass in american society (Reprint Edition) by John Irwin Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 1992 ISBN-10: 0-520-06032-6 / 0520060326 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-06032-6 / 9780520060326 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 ar |