Overview
Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Baz Dreisinger, a professor, journalist, and the founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline, looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of a world to which most are denied access. From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to launching a creative writing class in an overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand, Dreisinger examines the world behind bars with equal parts empathy and intellect. She journeys to Jamaica to visit a prison music program, to Singapore to learn about approaches to prisoner reentry, to Australia to grapple with the bottom line of private prisons, to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement, and finally to the so-called model prisons of Norway. Incarceration Nations concludes with climactic lessons about the past, present, and future of justice.
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Author: Baz Dreisinger ,
Christina Delaine
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200009145
Publication Date: 09 February 2016
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"An eye-opening, damning indictment of the American prison system and the way its sins reverberate around the globe.-- ""Kirkus"""
Author Information
Baz Dreisinger, the author of Near Black, is an associate professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. A journalist and critic, Baz has written for the New York Times, Village Voice, Vibe, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. Together with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Peter Spirer, she produced and wrote the documentaries Black and Blue, which investigates the New York Police Department's monitoring of the hip-hop industry, and Rhyme and Punishment, about hip-hop and the prison industrial complex. Christina Delaine is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator and accomplished stage actress. Her theater credits include Jewtopia, the longest-running comedy in Off-Broadway history, and the title role in Antigone at both Portland Center Stage and Kentucky Repertory Theatre. She holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College and an MFA in acting from Brown University.
