Bigger Prisons = Profits for Author at Modern Times Tonight

Prisons. I for one, would like to see more. Something like one out every 60 males in America is in jail every year, but I went to public school. I'd say one out of 15 males are criminals. Besides, only the truly stupid get caught. It's kind of like social darwinism, except convicts still breed. ... I have a feeling the reader at Modern Times bookstore might diasagree a little bit with me.

Read on:

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California explores California’s 450 percent increase in incarcerated persons in the last three decades or so, and she also does that traditional muckraker dance: She follows the money to show who has a stake in building even more prison beds. Our Golden State is still spending more money on lockups than on education, and the writer’s no fan of that, either. Hear this associate professor of geography and American studies and ethnicity at USC read from and discuss her book at 7 p.m. at Modern Times, 888 Valencia (at 20th St.), S.F. Admission is free; call 282-9246 or visit www.mtbs.com. -- Hiya Swanhuyser