Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
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Baz Dreisinger. (2016). Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World. Other Press.

Baz Dreisinger. 2016. Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World. Other Press.

Baz Dreisinger, Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World. Other Press, 2016.

Baz Dreisinger. Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World. Other Press, 2016.

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   • bioText: Baz Dreisinger is an Associate Professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and the founder and Academic Director of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program (P2CP), which offers credit-bearing college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated men. She is also a reporter on popular culture, the Caribbean, world music, and race-related issues for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, among others, and a co-producer and co-writer of the documentaries Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop and Rhyme & Punishment. She is the author of Near Black: White to Black Passing in American Culture (2008).
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In this crucial study, named one of the Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016 and now in paperback, Baz Dreisinger goes behind bars in nine countries to investigate the current conditions in prisons worldwide.
Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline program, Dreisinger 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, and a rethinking of one of America's most far-reaching global exports: the modern prison complex.
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.

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   • source: Gina Dent, Associate Professor and Chair, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
   • content: "Despite tacit awareness that the prison crisis is global and that the global prison's modern form is US-generated, work on incarceration is almost always limited by national context. The work of gaining access and trust, of studying multiple intricate systems and national contexts, of traveling long distances and juggling multiple exchanges--while achieving depth of focus--is surely too great for one scholar. Or so it would seem. Dreisinger's Incarceration Nations, which documents prisons on four continents, appears to do the impossible. It's a vital work--part memoir, part scholarly excavation--that manages to inspire even as it chronicles some of the world's most horrific places. Dreisinger's long history of work with the currently and formerly incarcerated is the perfect background and material for weaving an account that asks all of the right questions, setting us on a path while acknowledging that answers are really just the ground for asking anew."
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   • source: Robert A. Ferguson, George Edward Woodberry Professor of Law, Literature, and Criticism, Columbia University
   • content: "Incarceration Nations is required reading for anyone concerned about the severity of punishment in America, and that should be all of us. Baz Dreisinger traces our legacy of mass incarceration around the globe. She does it with honesty, courage, and humility over the size of the problem, and yet she finds magical possibilities everywhere she goes when the imprisoned are treated as real persons. There are answers. This book says we can find them."
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     October 12, 2015
     Dreisinger, founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline program, takes readers on a “prison odyssey” across the globe in search of alternatives to the American system’s reliance on harsh sentencing, mandatory minimums, and the threat of solitary confinement. This journey begins with a powerful examination of restorative justice practices in Rwanda and South Africa, demonstrating how they shift the emphasis from punishment and retribution to reconciliation and the needs of victims. Dreisinger interrogates failures in modern penal practices, from the dehumanizing use of solitary confinement in Brazil to the overcrowding of Thai prisons filled with nonviolent drug offenders. In her storytelling she provides balanced analysis, reflecting on the limitations of reform and questioning the efficacy of well-intentioned measures such as arts programs. Her glimpses into the sociopolitical and cultural landscapes of each country provides a point for departure and comparison when examining the lessons the U.S. can learn from abroad. For example, she visits a private prison in Australia that, unlike its American counterparts, stresses intensive staff training and programs to prevent recidivism. In her travels, from Africa to Norway, Dreisinger carries out an incisive inquiry into the standards for a just society’s humane treatment of its prisoners, concluding that social inequality, racism, and capitalism lie at the root of mass incarceration in the U.S. and abroad. Agent: Sarah Levitt, Kuhn Projects.

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     November 15, 2015
     A writer and social activist chronicles her visits to prisons around the globe to gain insight into what works and doesn't work. This anthropological examination by Dreisinger (English/John Jay Coll. of Criminal Justice, CUNY; Near Black: White to Black Passing in American Culture, 2008) wears its agenda proudly, which is not a bad thing given the level of intellectual insight and emotional struggle the author brings to her argument. Though she founded the Prison-to-College Pipeline program in 2011 to help prisoners transition successfully back into society, she still had questions. "I decided I needed a shock to the system, to unseat basic truths, to ask myself what I used to get asked all the time, before my world became overwhelmingly filled with people who shared my passions and premises," she writes. "Why care so passionately about the so-called wrongdoers of the world?" To that end, Dreisinger traversed the globe to speak with genocide survivors in Rwanda, reggae enthusiasts behind bars in Uganda and Jamaica, and imprisoned mothers in Thailand. In Brazil, the author met men broken by the savagery of solitary confinement. "Anything not to be in a cell," one prisoner said. "I will do anything to escape being so alone. All those hours. I believe in love--in love as redemption. There is no love here." Yet while she made a concerted effort to connect on a personal level, her ultimate goal was to understand the big picture. In Australia, she struggled, for example, with whether privatization of incarceration for profit can be humane. Dreisinger's refusal to offer sweeping generalizations or simple directives in the name of restorative justice is bold and as confrontational as her sessions with her students. "I'm not trying to be cryptic; the reality is that there is no pat answer to the big questions around race and crime," she writes. "Humanity is complex and contradictory; any system addressing it must be equally so." An eye-opening, damning indictment of the American prison system and the way its sins reverberate around the globe.

     COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     November 1, 2015
     

     It's difficult to address mass incarceration without talking about communities of color, especially black ones. Founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline, Dreisinger (English, John Jay Coll.) tackles America's most noxious export: prisons.

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline program, Dreisinger 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, and a rethinking of one of America's most far-reaching global exports: the modern prison complex.
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