ITEM OVERVIEW
A vital collection of essays written by prisoners, social critics, and investigative reporters testifying to the current state of America's living conditions and political concerns. From prison rape and the AIDS crisis inside to the drug war and prison privatization. Lots of big names—Noam Chomsky, Christian Parenti, Jeffrey St. Clair, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Daniel Burton-Rose, Alex Freidman, Ronald Young, et al.—and lots of solid, searching scholarship.
"Prison Nation goes beyond the numbers to show the complex, interwoven reasons that have produced the prison-industrial complex. In every section of the book...readers will find solid reporting, gripping writing, and political revelation." —Ken Silverstein, from the introduction
"An extraordinary collection of essays by some of our most astute observers of the American prison system. This volume makes clear the connection between prisons and poverty, the class nature of the justice system. It is both a treasury of information and a profound examination of imprisonment in America." —Howard Zinn
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