Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
Jessica Mitford
#2114 of 3,809 books · #115 in Politics & Current Affairs
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1974).
An expose of the American penal systems that points out its unnecessary cruelties and injustices.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN-13
- 9780394710938
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1974)
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