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    “An Enormous Amount of Human Waste”: Self-esteem, Capitalism, and the US Prison, 1973-1989 by Anaïs Lefèvre

    Published 2021-02-01
    “…The period between the passage of the Rockefeller drug laws in 1973 and the Reagan-era expansion of the War on Drugs in the late 1980s was characterized by the rise of penal punitiveness and the triumph of neoliberal logics; it was also during these years that the concept of “self-esteem” came to be used recurrently in relation to prison work programs. …”
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