World Health Organization, 202
wrongful convictions, 12–13, 28, 33, 86–88
wrongful speech, 53–54
Wronko, James, 58
Yahoo Sports, 188
Yank, Ronald, 109
Youngblood, Donny, 161
Zellner, Kathleen, 98
zero-tolerance policies, 4, 7, 15, 57, 189
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
IVAN G. GOLDMAN COVERED CONGRESS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST, WORKED the National Desk of the Los Angeles Times, and was an editorial writer and op-ed columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A longtime boxing columnist, he has written for Columbia Journalism Review, Utne Reader, The Nation, National Review, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and other publications. He has done dozens of commentaries for Marketplace, a show heard throughout the NPR network. His previous nonfiction work, L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network, coauthored with ex-detective Mike Rothmiller, was a New York Times bestseller. He has also written four novels: Where the Money Is: A Novel of Las Vegas; The Barfighter, which was nominated as a 2009 Notable Book by the American Library Association; and most recently, Isaac: A Modern Fable, which received a starred review in BookList. Goldman, who holds an MA from the University of Kansas, was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives with his wife in Southern California. He can be reached at ivangoldman@yahoo.com.
ALSO BY IVAN G. GOLDMAN
L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network (with Mike Rothmiller)
The Barfighter
Exit Blue
Isaac: A Modern Fable
Where the Money Is: A Novel of Las Vegas
American Poverty: Presidential Failures and a Call to Action
—Woody Klein
Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law
—Christopher H. Pyle
Grave Injustice: Unearthing Wrongful Executions
—Richard A. Stack
Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade
—Janice G. Raymond
Copyright
© 2013 by Ivan G. Goldman
All rights reserved
Potomac Books is an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Goldman, Ivan G.
Sick justice : inside the American Gulag / Ivan G. Goldman. — First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61234-487-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-61234-488-1 (electronic)
1. Prisons—United States. 2. Corrections—United States. 3. Criminal justice, Administration of—United States. I. Title.
HV9471.G646 2013
365’.973—dc23
2013003517
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 Standard.
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