Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation by Joseph T. Hallinan

Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation

Joseph T. Hallinan

288 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology informative slow-paced

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The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world -- half a million more than in Comm...

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