What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem | Books
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 1, 2022
The statistics are familiar but remain startling: America’s incarceration rate per 100,000 is “roughly twice that of Russia’s and Iran’s, four times that of Mexico’s, five times of England’s, six times Canada’s” and nine times that of Germany. In addition, “parole and probation regulate the lives of 4.5 million Americans” – more than twice as many as are confined in prison.
These numbers come at the beginning of Bill Keller’s smart, short new book, in which he tries to explain how America became . . .
