A Country Called Prison
Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 July 2015
- ISBN 9780190211035
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 160x241x17 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Weaving together sociological and psychological principles, theories of political reform, and real-life stories from experiences working in prison and with at-risk families, Looman and Carl demonstrate that prison is a culture, not purely an institution made up of fences, building, and policies.
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The United States is the world leader in incarceration; 707 people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If the US prison system were a country, it would be the 143rd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the numbers, if we could look at prison from a new view as its own country rather than an institution made up of walls and wiers, policies and procedures, and legal statues, what might we be able to learn?
In A Country Called Prison Mary Looman and John Carl attempt to answer this question by proposing a paradigm shift in the way that American society views mass incarceration. Weaving together sociological and psychological principles, theories of political reform, and real-life stories from experiences working in prison and with at-risk families, Looman and Carl form a fundamental fabric of understanding to demonstrate that prison is a culture, that transcends the fences and buildings of correctional facilities. This culture, they argue,begins in the prisons of disadvantage, abusive and neglected childhoods, continues in correctional facilities, and proceeds to infiltrate life post-incarceration, as ex-felons leave correctional facilities (and often return to impoverished neighborhoods)without money or legal identification of American citizenship. Caught in the isolation of poverty, these legal aliens turn to illegal means of providing for themselves, and are often reimprisoned. This situation is unsustainable and America is clearly facing an incarceration epidemic that requires a new perspective to eradicate it. A Country Called Prison offers pragmatic, transformative, and economical suggestions to reform the prison system and help prisoners return to a healthier life after incarceration.
Mary Looman and John Carl embarked on a project to reveal the insanity of one country, but in doing so, the reader discovers not one but two crazy countries. The first country is called prison; the second is called the United States of America.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction to a Country Called Prison
Chapter 2 What Makes Prisons A Country?
Chapter 3 Who Are the People of a Country Called Prison
Chapter 4 Life in a Country Called Prison
Chapter 5 Visiting America From a Country Called Prison
Chapter 6 Emigrating From a Country Called Prison
Chapter 7 Assimilating a Country Called Prison
Appendix Summary of Proposals
