Prison Nation
Subtitle: The Warehousing of America's Poor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 30, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780415935388
First sentence: When Paul Wright, a prisoner at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington state and co-editor of this rich volume, calls this country's system of mass incarceration "the most thoroughly implemented social experiment in American history," some readers might believe him to be guilty of exaggeration.