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Tim Keane reviews David Matlin's Prisons: Inside the New America.

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This issue of autobiography is related to the way in which Jean Genet’s autobiography operates; see Tim Keane’s essay “Entre Chien et Loup.”

‐ Lori Emerson

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For a related discussion of AIDS, see Harold Jaffe’s essay “Outcast Narrative” as well as Tim Keane’s “Above Us Only Sky.”

‐ Lori Emerson

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By contrast to the model of principled law-breaking, see Tim Keane’s review “God Help Us: A Fury for God” in which he discusses the influence of the imprisoned Egyptian Qutb’s influence on Islamist suicide bombing as a mode for resisting secularist regimes in the Mideast.

‐ Lori Emerson

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Kenneth Saltman’s discussion of Michael Milken’s post-prison foray into the education business is a useful contrast to Matlin’s references to Clinton and Cuomo’s involvement in gutting education initiatives in American prisons.

‐ Lori Emerson

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