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Brief Review in Rethinking Schools: *The Real Cost of Prisons Comix

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

*The Real Cost of Prisons Comix Edited by Lois Ahrens Comix by Kevin Pyle, Sabrina Jones and Susan Willmarth (PM Press, 2008) $12.95, unpaginated Between the 1920s and 1960s, about one out of every one thousand people in the United States were incarcerated. By 2000, about five out of every thousand people were incarcerated. With compassion, insight, plain language, and compelling images, The Real Cost of Prisons peels back this startling statistic to explore the human stories it hides. Student-friendly comic chapters examine prison towns; the so-called "war on drugs" and prisoners; and women prisoners and children. The U.S. prison-industrial complex deserves a bigger place in the curriculum. This slim volume is an excellent start. Rethinking Schools...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).