Nelson Rockefeller in Latin America: Global Currents of US Prison Growth

• Published in: Comparative American studies Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 161 - 176
• Main Author: Seigel, Micol
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Attica; Cold War; incarceration; Latin America; Nelson Rockefeller; Nixon; prison growth; racism; Rockefeller drug laws; tough on crime; transnational method

Nelson Rockefeller is a key piece of the puzzle that is the explosion of the US prison population in the last forty years, thanks both to his drug policies of 1973 and his response to the Attica prison rebellion two years previously, which set in motion a series of changes in prison practice. This e...