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A review by orasmis
What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Bill Keller
4.0
*** Free copy given in exchange for an honest review ***
This book is an exploration of the American prison system. It goes into a brief history of jails/prisons and how they work and function. It talks about the reasons that people are put into jail in the first place and whether or not the current system is effective at achieving any of those. It shows some positive aspects of several Europe prison systems and how those positive could be brought to the States to make out system better. It takes about how education and rehab services could help ease peoples entrance to mainstream life after they leave jail/prison. It looks at the differences between and men and womens prison/jail. It briefly dips into how Covid affected the penitentiary system. And it also talks about how the job affects the officers that work there.
I absolutely loved this book and blew through it in a day. It’s very well written and feels well researched. There are points that you are going to get angry/frustrated because it does such a good job showing how frustrating the American penitentiary system can be. It’s interesting to dip into the European systems but the book sees them with rose colored glasses. It only talks about the positives and no negatives. It does a good job of humanizing the people that it talks about. Overall I highly recommend this book for nonfiction readers and people that like reading about the penitentiary system.
This book is an exploration of the American prison system. It goes into a brief history of jails/prisons and how they work and function. It talks about the reasons that people are put into jail in the first place and whether or not the current system is effective at achieving any of those. It shows some positive aspects of several Europe prison systems and how those positive could be brought to the States to make out system better. It takes about how education and rehab services could help ease peoples entrance to mainstream life after they leave jail/prison. It looks at the differences between and men and womens prison/jail. It briefly dips into how Covid affected the penitentiary system. And it also talks about how the job affects the officers that work there.
I absolutely loved this book and blew through it in a day. It’s very well written and feels well researched. There are points that you are going to get angry/frustrated because it does such a good job showing how frustrating the American penitentiary system can be. It’s interesting to dip into the European systems but the book sees them with rose colored glasses. It only talks about the positives and no negatives. It does a good job of humanizing the people that it talks about. Overall I highly recommend this book for nonfiction readers and people that like reading about the penitentiary system.