Going Up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
$29.75
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2003
Summary
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat. Two 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 ent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812968446 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812968441 |
| Author: | Joseph T. Hallinan |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
“A clear-eyed, sleekly written and deeply disturbing tour…. [An] essential portrait of the current state of American justice.”
“A searing montage of human horrors served up in a terse, no-nonsense style…. Hallinan’s sharp, enterprising reporting makes Going Up the River a valuable, accessible snapshot of the damage kicked up in our quagmire of national incarceration.”
“Every senator, congressman and state legislator, as well as every governor and the president, should read Going Up the River…. A powerful, level-headed book, [it] may just, hopefully, accelerate the pace of change.”
About The Author
Joseph T. Hallinan
Joseph Hallinan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has been writing about the criminal-justice system for almost a decade, first as a local reporter and later as a nationally syndicated correspondent for the Newhouse News Service. In 1997, Hallinan was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he continued to investigate American prisons. He now writes for The Wall Street Journal and lives in Chicago.
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