This book is much better than other reviewers have pointed out. Each essay pointedly discusses major problems with mass incarceration. A couple of the chapters had phenomenal work on gender. It's a nice compilation. ...more
short essays covering various topics related to mass incarceration policies...the impact on individuals, families and communities of locking so many people up! a good book if you want to get up to speed quickly on a variety of topics related to imprisonment in the U.S. ...more
This book was a huge eye opener for me when I read it ten years ago. Yes it's kind of a mixed bag. Some essays are more interesting than others, but I remember being horrified after I read it. ...more
The chapters by Jeremy Travis (Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion), Angela Davis (Incarceration and the Imbalance of Power), Donald Braman (Families and Incarceration), Tracy Huling (Building a Prison Economy in Rural America) and Peter Y. Sussman (Media on Prisons: Censorship a ...more