Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration

By Mary Pattillo

Book Overview

Over the last thirty years, the U.S. penal population increased from around 300,000 to more than two million, with more than half a million prisoners returning to their home communities each year.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087154654X
• ISBN13: 9780871546548
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"