Golden Gulag Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads Book 21)

Her books include Red Famine, Stalin's war on Ukraine, the Pulitzer Prize winning Gulag, a history and most recently Twilight of Democracy, the seductive lore of authoritarianism, all very uplifting pieces of writing.

You talked about the common view that prisons sit on the edge at the margins of social spaces, economic regions, political territories, and fights for rights. This apparent marginality is a trick of perspective because as every geographer knows, edges are also interfaces. For example, even while borders highlight the distinction between places, they also connect places into relationship with each other and the non-contiguous places. So too with prisons.