Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics

by Anthony Thompson

Book Overview

In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, African Americans made up approximately twelve percent ofthe United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. Now, in the latter half of the decade, the nation is in the midst of the largest multi-year discharge of prisoners in its history. In Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities, Anthony C. Thompson discusses what is likely to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814783031
• ISBN13: 9780814783030
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"