Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by Schenwar, Maya

Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781626562691)

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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by Schenwar, Maya

Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

$20.95
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by Schenwar, Maya

Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. As she vividly depicts here, incarceration takes away the very things that might enable people to build better lives. But looking toward a future beyond imprisonment, Schenwar profiles community-based initiatives that successfully deal with problems--both individual harm and larger social wrongs--through connection rather than isolation, moving toward a safer, freer future for all of us.

Author: Maya Schenwar
ISBN-10: 1626562695
ISBN-13: 9781626562691
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.46h x 5.54w x 0.68d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2014
Library Journal 01/01/2015 pg. 119
Library Journal 07/01/2016 pg. 41
By Maya Schenwar
By Maya Schenwar
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Maya Schenwar is editor-in-chief of Truthout, an independent social-justice news website. She has written about the prison-industrial complex for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Newark Star-Ledger, Ms. magazine, and others. Previous to joining Truthout, Maya was contributing editor at Punk Planet magazine and served as publicity coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

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