Locked Down, Locked Out : Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better [eBook - hoopla]

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Locked Down, Locked Out : Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

(2022)

By: Schenwar, Maya

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PUBLISHED

[United States] : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022
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1 online resource (241 pages)

ISBN/ISSN

9781626562714 MWT15019444, 1626562717 15019444

LANGUAGE

English

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An analysis of the U.S. prison system through real-life stories, and a look at the complex work of community-based social justice projects. Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. As she vividly depicts here, incarceration takes away the very things that might enable people to build better lives. But looking toward a future beyond imprisonment, Schenwar profiles community-based initiatives that successfully deal with problems-both individual harm and larger social wrongs-through connection rather than isolation, moving toward a safer, freer future for all of us

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