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Potent pieces on prison nation from the Boston Review

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader pointed me to the latest issue of the Boston Review, which has a series of notable articles under the heading, "After Prison: A special issue on incarcerated America."  Here are the chief pieces (with quotes from the Boston Review's website): Reentry: Reversing mass imprisonment by Bruce Western: "To be young, black, and unschooled today is to risk a felony conviction, prison time, and a life of second-class citizenship. In this sense, the prison boom has produced mass incarceration?a level of imprisonment so vast and concentrated that it forges the collective experience of an entire social group." Guarded Hope: Learning from the prison boom by Robert Perkinson: "If racially skewed prison warehousing represents the latest incarnation of American racism, then political mobilization and social transformation on the scale of the civil rights movement may be necessary to dislodge it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).