The Circumference of a Prison: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System

by Reginald Dwayne Betts and Dwayne Betts

The NAACP Image Award---winning author of A Question of Freedom examines the failures?and broader repercussions?of America's broken juvenile justice system. ? Over the past four decades, the prison population in America has increased by more than 500 percent, leaving more than three million people confined or under state or federal supervision. Each year, nearly 200,000 juveniles are tried, sentenced, or locked in cells with adults in America?despite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583334750
• ISBN13: 9781583334751
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher