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"The Real Cost of Prisons Comix"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The Real Cost of Prisons Comix" Lois Ahrens, editor PM Press of Oakland, Calif. Book Bag, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA This book is a collection of three comic books, including accompanying essays, that explore the social, emotional and financial cost the United States faces by keeping approximately 2.3 million people behind bars. The book also includes comments from community organizers around the country discussing how they have used the book in their work. This country's imprisoned population is a number that has steadily grown. From the end of World War II to 1970, according to Ahrens, there were 200,000 people in prison. Though there are more than 2 million people jailed now, the nation's crime rate, she says, has changed little...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).