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By Baz Dreisinger

In this important learn, named one among the Washington Post's awesome Nonfiction Books of 2016 and now in paperback, Baz Dreisinger is going at the back of bars in 9 nations to enquire the present stipulations in prisons worldwide.

Beginning in Africa and finishing in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey in the course of the legal structures of the area. Professor, journalist, and founding father of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline application, Dreisinger seems to be into the human tales of incarcerated women and men and those that imprison them, making a jarring, poignant view of an international to which such a lot are denied entry, and a rethinking of 1 of America's such a lot far-reaching worldwide exports: the trendy legal complex.

From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a infamous South African legal and dealing with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to launching an inventive writing type in an overcrowded Ugandan criminal and coordinating a drama workshop for girls prisoners in Thailand, Dreisinger examines the realm in the back of bars with equivalent components empathy and mind. She trips to Jamaica to go to a jail track software, to Singapore to profit approximately ways to prisoner reentry, to Australia to grapple with the base line of personal prisons, to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement, and eventually to the so-called version prisons of Norway. Incarceration international locations concludes with climactic classes in regards to the prior, current, and way forward for justice.

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