Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the founding collective of Critical Resistance, one of the most important national anti-prison organizations in the United States.
"""A magnificent analysis of the political economy of super-incarceration and the slave plantations that California calls prisons."" - Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear ""Golden Gulag is a deeply necessary book for our times. Gilmore digs beneath the easy answers to the more troubling causes of a political consensus that prisons are the only solution to all urban and rural ills."" - Nayan Shah, author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown"""