Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
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Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business is a nonfiction book that critically examines the American prison system and the commercialization of incarceration.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business canonical | 1 |
| U.S. private prison industry | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business Context triple: [Jessica Mitford, notableWork, Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business]
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Prisonomics
Prisonomics is a non-fiction book by economist Vicky Pryce that analyzes the economic and social costs of the UK’s prison system, informed by her own experience of incarceration.
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Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
"Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure" is an essay by anarchist writer Emma Goldman that critiques the prison system as inherently unjust and socially destructive.
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Punishment and Modern Society
Punishment and Modern Society is a seminal sociological study by David Garland that analyzes how modern penal systems reflect and shape broader social, political, and cultural structures.
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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality is a scholarly book that explains how legal institutions and instruments are used to turn assets into capital, thereby shaping global wealth distribution and reinforcing economic inequality.
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E.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? is a influential book by Angela Davis that critiques the prison-industrial complex and argues for prison abolition as part of broader social and political transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business Target entity description: Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business is a nonfiction book that critically examines the American prison system and the commercialization of incarceration.
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A.
Prisonomics
Prisonomics is a non-fiction book by economist Vicky Pryce that analyzes the economic and social costs of the UK’s prison system, informed by her own experience of incarceration.
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B.
Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
"Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure" is an essay by anarchist writer Emma Goldman that critiques the prison system as inherently unjust and socially destructive.
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C.
Punishment and Modern Society
Punishment and Modern Society is a seminal sociological study by David Garland that analyzes how modern penal systems reflect and shape broader social, political, and cultural structures.
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D.
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality is a scholarly book that explains how legal institutions and instruments are used to turn assets into capital, thereby shaping global wealth distribution and reinforcing economic inequality.
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E.
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? is a influential book by Angela Davis that critiques the prison-industrial complex and argues for prison abolition as part of broader social and political transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
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