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Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? By David Cole

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Volume 56, Number 18 · November 19, 2009 NY Review of Books Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? By David Cole Race, Incarceration, and American Values by Glenn C. Loury, with Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loïc Wacquant Boston Review/MIT Press, 86 pp., $14.95 Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler New Press, 214 pp., $25.95 Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics by Anthony C. Thompson New York University Press, 262 pp., $39.00; $21.00 (paper) 1. With approximately 2.3 million people in prison or jail, the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world?by far. Our per capita rate is six times greater than Canada's, eight times greater than France's, and twelve times greater than Japan's...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 05, 2009 (boomark / email).