From Gulag to Guantanamo

Wesley Kendall is a Law Lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. He is author of The U.S. Death Penalty and Diplomacy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013) and Language of Terror (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).

• Preface / 1. Introduction / 2. A Primer on the Evolution of the Penitentiary / 3. The Institution of American Slavery and the Evolution of Modern Mass Incarceration: A Critical Assessment of Forced Labor in America and China / 4. Reaping Refugees: Privatized Immigration Detention Centers in America and Australia / 5. Condemned Kids: The Incarceration of Children for Profit in America and the United Kingdom / 6. From Gulag to Guantanamo: State Sanctioned Torture and The Global Convergence of Corporate States; An American-Russian Case Study / Selected Bibliography / Index

This book explores how and why the majority of Americans has accepted uncritically the need for policies of mass incarceration and how corporate interests have cultivated the fear harnessing it to the engine of entrepreneurial exploitation to generate immense profits. . . .Kendall offers the reader an insightful view into the political, social, and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe. But most important, Kendall calls attention to an important issue—privatized prisons and whether society should continue placing inmates in them.