Introduction -- Pt. I Beyond Doing Time: The Lifetime Consequences of Imprisonment -- 1 Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion -- 2 Welfare and Housing - Denial of Benefits to Drug Offenders -- 3 Mass Imprisonment and the Disappearing Voters -- Pt. II Distorting Justice -- 4 Incarceration and the Imbalance of Power -- 5 Imprisoning Women: The Unintended Victims of Mass Imprisonment -- 6 Entrepreneurial Corrections: Incarceration As a Business Opportunity -- Pt. III Fractured Families -- 7 Families and Incarceration -- 8 The Social Impact of Mass Incarceration on Women -- 9 Children, Cops, and Citizenship: Why Conservatives Should Oppose Racial Profiling -- Pt. IV Communities in Crisis -- 10 Black Economic Progress in the Era of Mass Imprisonment -- 11 The Problem with "Addition by Subtraction": The Prison-Crime Relationship in Low-Income Communities -- Pt. V Incarceration As Socially Corrosive -- 12 Building a Prison Economy in Rural America -- 13 The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Immigration Policy -- 14 The House of the Dead: Tuberculosis and Incarceration -- 15 Media on Prisons: Censorship and Stereotypes -- 16 The International Impact of U.S. Policies -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index