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University of Chicago Press, 2023-03-08. First Edition. paperback. New. 6.00x0.70x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.

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Paperback / softback. New. An eye-opening look at how incarcerated people, health professionals, and others behind and beyond bars came together to problem-solve incarceration. Raising the Living Dead is a history of Puerto Rico's carceral rehabilitation system that brings to life the interactions of incarcerated people, their wider social networks, and health care professionals. Alberto Ortiz Diaz describes the ways that multiple communities of care came together both inside and outside of prisons to imagine and enact solution-oriented cultures of rehabilitation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Scientific and humanistic approaches to well-being were deliberately fused to raise the "living dead," an expression that reemerged in the modern Caribbean to refer to prisoners. These reform groups sought to raise incarcerated people physically, mentally, socially, spiritually, and civically. The book is based on deep, original archival research into the Oso Blanco (White Bear) penitentiary in… Read more

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First Edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP. Papeback. New.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2023. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 253 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches.