

Forever Prisoners
How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System
Author: Elliott Young
Narrator: Paul Brion
Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 02/23/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Emigration & Immigration, Social Science, Penology
Synopsis
Since the 1980s, the conflation of criminality with undocumented migrants has given rise to the most extensive system of immigrant incarceration in the nation's history. Today over half a million immigrants are caged each year, some serving indefinite terms in what has become the world's most extensive immigrant detention system. And yet, Young finds, the rate of all forms of incarceration for immigrants was as high in the early twentieth century as it is today, demonstrating a return to past carceral practices.