The American Prison Nightmare

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Reviewing Bruce Western’s Punishment and Inequality in America in the New York Review of Books, Jason DeParle describes the heartbreak of parents and children separated by prison bars. He goes on to recount the books examination of the impact of that separation on families and communities, and the extreme racial imbalance of that impact.

By Jason DeParle From July-August 2007 Clearinghouse Review