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Author Keller, Bill, author.

Title What's prison for? : punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration / Bill Keller.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia Global Reports, [2022]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3003386~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  365 KEL    AVAILABLE
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Description 159 pages ; 19 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-159).
Summary "What purpose is incarceration supposed to serve, and how successfully does it serve that purpose? What's Prison For? traces the tension between our national punitive streak and our faith in rehabilitation, between viewing prisoners as menacing Others to be incapacitated and shamed and, alternatively, viewing them as future neighbors"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Prisons.
Imprisonment.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
ISBN 9781735913742 (paperback)
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