From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones V. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

by Donald F. Tibbs and Margaret Read MacDonald

This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to inspire the formation of an inmate labor union. It thus rekindles the debate over the triumphs and troubles associated with the use of Black Power as a platform for influencing legal policy and effecting change for inmates. While the ideology of the prison rights movement was complex, it rested on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230340164
• ISBN13: 9780230340169
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"