Incarceration Nations : A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World (Paperback)

from jessicadelellis

I read this book for my Social Justice class and I had the honor of meeting the author (and having her sign my book). This book was insanely good. Our class had just read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness prior to this and this book out shined it in comparison. The...

from Darcia

Not many of us would choose to spend our time away from work touring prisons around the world, but that's just what Baz Dreisinger does. The result is a fascinating, often depressing, and sometimes hopeful look at various types of prisons, ways of treating people who have committed crimes, and pr...

from WaltNoise

In Incarceration Nations, Dreisinger discusses prisoner re-entry programs that she has participated in or observed worldwide. It is not an overview of prison conditions for most prisoners in the nations that she has visited. While a useful personal overview of prisoner rehabilitation programs, it...

from The_Hibernator

Dr. Dreisinger travels to different prisons around the world, giving 2-day seminars to the prisoners and comparing the pros and cons of each prison system. I admit this book wasn't quite what I expected. I expected it to have more complaints (with evidence) about the problems of overincarceration...

from jessicadelellis

I read this book for my Social Justice class and I had the honor of meeting the author (and having her sign my book). This book was insanely good. Our class had just read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness prior to this and this book out shined it in comparison. The...