Going Up the River; Travels in a Prison Nation
by Joseph T. Hallinan
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375502637
- ISBN 13
- 9780375502637
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 2001 Random House, New York. 2001. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Blue boards with blue overlay on spine with bright gold lettering on spine. 262 pp. According to the author, the desire to incarcerate has grown greatly since the 1980s as has the growth in the commercial prison business; small towns use them to replace lost jobs; big companies earn more than $30 billion from them; rehabilitation is not there, "they are here to die". This book is a striking indictment of the country's mad rush to incarcerate. A clean pristine copy.
Synopsis
Joseph Hallinan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has been writing about the criminal-justice system for almost a decade, first as a local reporter and later as a nationally syndicated correspondent for the Newhouse News Service. In 1997, Hallinan was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he continued to investigate American prisons. He now writes for The Wall Street Journal and lives in Chicago. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003236
- Title
- Going Up the River; Travels in a Prison Nation
- Author
- Joseph T. Hallinan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375502637
- ISBN 13
- 9780375502637
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Prison complexes, jails, county jails, commercial prisons, for profit prison business, incarcerate, jail for life, prison population, prison wardens, prison guards,
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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