Criminal
Apr. 9, 2004
Exchanging the Prison Behind Bars for the Prison Outside
Book Review - 'Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Barlett' (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2004) - By Brent Staples - The United States is transforming itself into a nation of former convicts. This country imprisons people at 14 times the rate of Japan, eight times the rate of France and six times the rate of Canada. The American prison system disgorges 600,000 angry, unskilled people each year - more than the populations of Boston, Milwaukee or Washington, D.C.
'Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Barlett' (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2004)
By Brent Staples
The United States is ...
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