num_pages: 325
description: Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor journalist and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline Dreisinger looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them creating a view of a world to which most are denied access and a rethinking of one of Americas most far-reaching global exports: the modern prison complex.From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda to launching a creative writing class in an overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand Dreisinger examines the world behind bars with equal parts empathy and intellect. She journeys to Jamaica to visit a prison music program to Singapore to learn about approaches to prisoner reentry to Australia to grapple with the bottom line of private prisons to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement and finally to the so-called model prisons of Norway. Incarceration Nations concludes with climactic lessons about the past present and future of justice.
language: English
title: Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
publisher: Other Press