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

✍ Scribed by Maya Schenwar

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction Into the Hole
Part One: Coming Apart
1 The Visiting Room
2 The 100-Year Communication Rewind
3 On the Homefront
4 “Only Her First Bid”
5 Disposable Babies
Part Two: Coming Together
6 The Case for a Pen Pal
7 Working from the Inside Out: Decarcerate!
8 Telling Stories
9 The Peace Room
10 A Wakeup
Epilogue: Not an Ending
Notes
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Footnotes
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