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What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Bill Keller
4.29/5 (134 ratings)
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What happens inside our prisons?

What's Prison For? examines the “incarceration” part of “mass incarceration.” What happens inside prisons and jails, where nearly two million Americans are held? Bill Keller, one of America’s most accomplished journalists, has spent years deeply immersed in the subject. He argues that prisons must become places where rehabilitation is a top priority, and introduces us to reformers who are trying to prepare incarcerated people for a better life on the outside.

Keller takes us inside the walls of our prisons, where we meet men and women who have found purpose while in state custody; American corrections officials who have set out to learn from Europe’s state-of-the-art prison campuses; a rehab unit within a Pennsylvania prison, dubbed Little Scandinavia, where lifers serve as mentors; a college behind bars in San Quentin; a rare women's prison that helps imprisoned mothers bond with their children; and Keller's own classroom at Sing Sing. What's Prison For? is an indispensable guide to our prison system, and a powerful argument that the status quo is a shameful waste of human potential.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
160 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Columbia Global Reports
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
173591374X
ISBN13:
9781735913742
kindle Asin:
B09SCZXCF1

What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Bill Keller
4.29/5 (134 ratings)
Read Download
What happens inside our prisons?

What's Prison For? examines the “incarceration” part of “mass incarceration.” What happens inside prisons and jails, where nearly two million Americans are held? Bill Keller, one of America’s most accomplished journalists, has spent years deeply immersed in the subject. He argues that prisons must become places where rehabilitation is a top priority, and introduces us to reformers who are trying to prepare incarcerated people for a better life on the outside.

Keller takes us inside the walls of our prisons, where we meet men and women who have found purpose while in state custody; American corrections officials who have set out to learn from Europe’s state-of-the-art prison campuses; a rehab unit within a Pennsylvania prison, dubbed Little Scandinavia, where lifers serve as mentors; a college behind bars in San Quentin; a rare women's prison that helps imprisoned mothers bond with their children; and Keller's own classroom at Sing Sing. What's Prison For? is an indispensable guide to our prison system, and a powerful argument that the status quo is a shameful waste of human potential.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
160 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Columbia Global Reports
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
173591374X
ISBN13:
9781735913742
kindle Asin:
B09SCZXCF1

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