Luke’s Reviews > Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California > Status Update

I pushed through the last 100 pages of this in my fourth day of first post-chemo haze cause my brain valued finding real hope over taking it easy.

But as with the lack of critique concerning the need for more prisons, there was no discussion, either, about what it would mean for a small city dominated by a single-industry oligopoly to deal with inequality by bringing in an enormous new employer outside the direct control of anybody; nor did people ponder what might happen should the prison fail to do the economic job.

Glad to get back to this. Still want to make sweet sweet love to this book (important feeling to hold on to during my first bout of chemo).

In 1973, one in 944 people in California was in prison. In 2000, one in 213 people in California was in prison.

As the multigenerational abandonment of California's children to poverty shows, wealth does not circulate the way it used to.