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American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

byShane Bauer

In American Prison, Shane Bauer presents a political study centered on a Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of political science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. American Prison leaves readers with key context and a clear view of the human stakes involved. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9780735223608