The accused get what the system doesn't pay for

Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 6-22

  Bright, Stephen B ^a  

^a Southern Center for Human Rights   (United States)

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EID: 25444521046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203952627-3     Document Type: Chapter

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