Going up the River Travels in a Prison Nation

Name: Going up the River Travels in a Prison Nation
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ISBN: 9780375502637

ISBN-10: 0375502637

ISBN-13: 9780375502637

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joseph T. Hallinan

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The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest growth industry, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that has become entrenched without public awareness, much less voter consent. He answers, in an extraordinary way, the essential question: What, in human terms, is the price we pay? He has looked for answers to that question in every corner…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/20/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Joseph T. Hallinan, a former writer for The Wall Street Journal, is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.