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Title: Going Up the River : Travels in a Prison Nation by Joseph Hallinan ISBN: 0-8129-6844-1 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hail Hallinan !!!
Comment: After years of award-winning writing as a journalist for various newspapers, Joseph T. Hallinan's debut as an author is nothing short of spectacular with this eye-opening account of our penal system and the prisoners it incarcerates.
Upon reading the book, it becomes quite obvious that Hallinan has left no stone unturned in his research. Personal accounts from wardens, corrections officers, and inmates provide a frightening look at the struggle for survival that goes on day-to-day in prison. Legislative issues, ranging from "mandatory minimums" to California's "three strikes" law are covered, backed up by staggering statistics. Finally, the trend toward privatization of prisons and the accompanying corruption is exposed.
Thoroughly studied and brilliantly written, Going Up The River is truly a must-read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-presented discussion
Comment: From the first page to the last, this is a stimulating book. The author writes with a novelist's touch, meshing statistics, anecdotes, interviews, and history. Then he adds a touch of compassion and questions the validity of our prison system as it has evolved.
What's most amazing is the sheer immensity of the problem of making our prisons a business, a growth industry that won't die. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us of the excesses of the military-industrial complex. Hallinan warns us of the consequences and costs of our new prison-industrial complex.
We may not wish to discuss prisons in a public forum, but this book demands that each of us look at this issue, which isn't going away, and see if this lock-em-up-forever road is the path we wish to take. Hiding our heads won't help us understand that no nation incarcerates a higher percentage of its people than the United States, that in the last 20 years our prison population has more than quadrupled, or that one in every eleven men will be imprisoned during his lifetime. We don't rehabilitate anymore; we assign long sentences and let prisoners rot. They become our long-term problem, one that is costing the United States in many ways. This is a public issue that needs addressing and this book succeeds in doing that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intelligent voice, April 25,2003
Comment: In Going up the River, Mr.Hallinan investigates the prison system. He addresses issues such as overcrowding prison populations, gangs, rape, and prisons being built because politicans thought it would bring them votes, and voters who hoped it would bring them jobs. This book examines the American prison system in a interesting yet,critical light. For some, this book may feel bias and less appealing; However, I found that this personal commentary made the statistics and factual discussions more interesting and meaniful.
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Title: Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor by Tara Herivel, Paul Wright ISBN: 0415935385 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Behind Bars: Surviving Prison by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards ISBN: 0028643518 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment by Marc Mauer, Meda Chesney-Lind ISBN: 1565848489 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie ISBN: 0805060162 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover ISBN: 0375726624 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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