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July 14, 2009
Brief Review in Rethinking Schools: *The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
*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. Volume 23 No. 2 - Winter 2008/2009 > Resources
Posted by lois at July 14, 2009 12:51 PM