LEADER 03607nam 22006375 450 001 9910162715803321 005 20230126215002.0 010 $a0-226-41048-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226410487 035 $a(CKB)3710000001021979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4780603 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001651961 035 $a(DE-B1597)524224 035 $a(OCoLC)968736745 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226410487 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001021979 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBig House on the Prairie $eRise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation /$fJohn M. Eason 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (251 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-226-41034-X 311 $a0-226-41020-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tGLOSSARY -- $tONE. Introduction: The Causes and Consequences of the Prison Boom -- $tPART ONE. Prison Placement -- $tPART TWO. Prison Impact -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tMETHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX A. The Multiple Imagined Positionalities of the Black Scholar in the Deep South -- $tMETHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX B. Research Design -- $tNOTES -- $tWORKS CITED -- $tINDEX 330 $aFor the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns. In 2007, John M. Eason moved his family to Forrest City, Arkansas, in search of answers to key questions about this trend: Why is America building so many prisons? Why now? And why in rural areas? Eason quickly learned that rural demand for prisons is complicated. Towns like Forrest City choose to build prisons not simply in hopes of landing jobs or economic wellbeing, but also to protect and improve their reputations. For some rural leaders, fostering a prison in their town is a means of achieving order in a rapidly changing world. Taking us into the decision-making meetings and tracking the impact of prisons on economic development, poverty, and race, Eason demonstrates how groups of elite whites and black leaders share power. Situating prisons within dynamic shifts that rural economies are undergoing and showing how racially diverse communities lobby for prison construction, Big House on the Prairie is a remarkable glimpse into the ways a prison economy takes shape and operates. 606 $aPrisons$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPrisons$xLocation$zUnited States 606 $aSociology, Rural 607 $aForrest City (Ark.)$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xRural conditions$y20th century 610 $aghetto. 610 $apolitical economy. 610 $aprison industrial complex. 610 $aprisons. 610 $apunishment. 610 $aracism. 610 $arural. 615 0$aPrisons$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPrisons$xLocation 615 0$aSociology, Rural. 676 $a365/.973 686 $aMS 6800$qBVB$2rvk 700 $aEason$b John M., $0990218 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162715803321 996 $aBig House on the Prairie$92264959 997 $aUNINA