Joseph T Hallinan
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
"No nation in the world incarcerates a higher percentage of its people than the United States. So common is the prison experience in America that the federal government predicts that one of every eleven men will be imprisoned in his lifetime. Just how out of hand things have gotten is the subject of Going Up the River, Joseph T. Hallinan's exploration of one of America's biggest growth industries, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that...