Forever Prisoners

By Elliott Young,

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Book description

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and…

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The kind of imprisonment happening in the United States today is not new. Through careful historical research, Young shows the numerous previous cases of indefinite incarceration that have so quickly exited the generic American psyche. In doing so, he draws attention to who is still entrapped as a forever prisoner, and appeals to our humanity to consider why and how this is so.

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