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

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

Bill Keller

160 pages first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction crime education politics psychology sociology dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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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 immersed...

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