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

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An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform." --NPR.org

New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Win...show more

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happeninheidi
Jul 05, 2023
4/10 stars
I listened to this one bc I was catching up on the ear hustle podcast and thought a prison memoir would be in that same line of thought. This was one of a few that I was able to find through my library. I didn’t love it. I think I wanted the author to lean in into the humanity of the incarcerated people he was working with and rather than do that he became meaner/ more separated from the men he dealt with daily.

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