Incarceration Nations, Baz Dreisinger
Incarceration Nations, Baz Dreisinger
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Incarceration Nations
A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World

Author: Baz Dreisinger

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/09/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Law


Synopsis

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.

About Baz Dreisinger

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.


Reviews

This book’s premise caught my attention: an American professor of criminal justice travels the world to study and compare various prison systems. Unfortunately, despite a promising beginning, it turns out to be less an in-depth learning experience than the author’s touring a bunch of prisons and usi......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 21, 2017

I read this book for my Social Justice class and I had the honor of meeting the author (and having her sign my book). This book was insanely good. Our class had just read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness prior to this and this book out shined it in comparison. The New......more

Goodreads review by Wally on December 30, 2015

As one who has spent more than 20 years as a volunteer teacher in prison, I wanted to read Baz Dreisinger's Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World. Dr. Dreisinger is an Associate Professor in the English Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and t......more

Goodreads review by Margot on December 04, 2021

Libro studiato per l’esame di filosofia morale. A una delle lezioni ha partecipato anche Baz Dreisinger, l’autrice del libro. Inizialmente pensavo di dare al libro 3 stelle (mi ha urtato un po’ il modo di lasciare le statistiche, cosa che già molte altre recensioni segnalano, anche se in realtà le fon......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 16, 2017

Groundbreaking? Not quite. Necessary for the world? Absolutely. Dreisinger visits nine countries and sees how they handle prisoners. That's it. Like the documentary 'Happy' - she does this in a straightforward way. She visits places and asks questions. The answer isn't one anyone wants to hear, probab......more