Incarceration nations : a journey to justice in prisons around the world /
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| Author / Creator: | Dreisinger, Baz, 1976- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Other Press, [2016] |
| Description: | 325 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Imprisonment. Corrections. Discrimination in criminal justice administration. Criminal justice, Administration of. Corrections. Criminal justice, Administration of. Discrimination in criminal justice administration. Imprisonment. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10782591 |
| Summary: | Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline, Dreisinger looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of a world to which most are denied access, and a rethinking of one of America's most far-reaching global exports- the modern prison complex.<br> <br> From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to launching a creative writing class in an overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand, Dreisinger examines the world behind bars with equal parts empathy and intellect. She journeys to Jamaica to visit a prison music program, to Singapore to learn about approaches to prisoner reentry, to Australia to grapple with the bottom line of private prisons, to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement, and finally to the so-called model prisons of Norway. Incarceration Nations concludes with climactic lessons about the past, present, and future of justice. |
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| Physical Description: | 325 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325). |
| ISBN: | 9781590517277 (hardcover) 159051727X (hardcover) 9781590517284 (e-book) |
