Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics

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By Marie Gottschalk *85

Published Jan. 21, 2016

Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics examines the shortcomings of the dominant penal-reform strategies and lays out an alternative political and public-policy path to fix underlying social, political, and economic structural issues. Gottschalk is a criminal-justice expert and a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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