New York Times Book Review

…Perkinson offers a searching history of American incarceration, tracing the failures of our prisons to the approach that Texas and other Southern states have long taken toward their criminals and denouncing the fact that, with about 1.6 million people in our penitentiaries and an additional 800,000 in our jails, the United States locks up its citizens at a higher rate than any other country in the world…

via Book Review – Texas Tough – The Rise of America’s Prison Empire – By Robert Perkinson – Review – NYTimes.com.

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