Going Up the River (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Law, sociology, and economics
- Time of Work: 1995-2000
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Economics, Law and jurisprudence
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Prisons, Twentieth century, Business or business people, 1990’s, Commerce
- Locales: United States
The United States of America, “land of the free,” currently incarcerates a higher percentage of its people than any other nation. Since 1980, the prison population has quadrupled to more than 1.3 million, with over 3,600 of these prisoners on death row. Every week, according to The New York Times, “the nation’s prison population swells by about one thousand—enough to fill two new prisons. This growth has occurred even as the crime rate has fallen, by about 16 percent since 1995.”
The federal government has predicted that one of every eleven million men will be...
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