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The Story of Cruel and Unusual

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.
 


Her Writings 

Listed below are links to several of her writings.  
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Melville, Locke and Faith
Raritan
Servile Law
Cities Without Citizens
Slaves, Ships, and Routes
Research in African Literatures
 
 
The Blue Room in Florence
The Yale Review
Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies
Materializing Democracy
Legal Terrors
Representations




Books

Haiti, History, and
the Gods
A Rainbow for
the Christian West
Fables of Mind
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