Islam in American Prisons: Black Muslims' Challenge to American Penology (Law, Justice and Power)

by HamidRezaKusha (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $189.42

  Argues that prisoners converting to Islam seek an alternative form of redemption, one that poses a powerful epistemological as well as ideological challenge to American penology. This study makes an argument for the objective examination of the rehabilitative potentials of faith-based organizations in prisons.