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What's Prison For?

What's Prison For?

Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration

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What's Prison For? examines the “incarceration” part of mass incarceration. Our prisons remain a shameful waste of lives and money, feeding a pathological cycle of poverty, community dysfunction, crime and hopelessness. What is the alternative? This book makes the case for better rehabilitation and examines attempts to assure that people return from prison better equipped than when they arrived for the challenges life presents.
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Columbia Global Reports Series

The Revolt Against Humanity
What's Prison For?
Beautiful, Gruesome, and True
The Fed Unbound
The Infodemic
Miseducation
In the Camps
Freedomville
Reading Our Minds
The Agenda
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About the Author

Bill Keller
Bill Keller is the executive editor of The New York Times. More by Bill Keller
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About the Author

Landon Woodson
Bill Keller is the executive editor of The New York Times. More by Landon Woodson
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