{"id":40672,"date":"2016-05-18T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40672"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T12:51:30","slug":"incarceration-nations-baz-dreisinger-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/incarceration-nations-baz-dreisinger-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40612\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/03\/Incarceration-Nations-by-Baz-Dreisinger-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger on BookDragon via Library Journal\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/03\/Incarceration-Nations-by-Baz-Dreisinger-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/03\/Incarceration-Nations-by-Baz-Dreisinger-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>\u201cNo one said this global journey would be smooth,\u201d writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jjay.cuny.edu\/faculty\/baz-dreisinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Baz Dreisinger<\/a> with controlled understatement. Covering two years and nine countries in her pilgrimage to prisons worldwide,\u00a0Dreisinger\u00a0\u2013 a self-described \u201cwhite English professor specializing in African-American cultural studies,\u201d as well as prison educator and criminal justice activist \u2013 begins her research at home, where &#8220;America is the world&#8217;s largest jailer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her instinct that &#8220;something is very, very wrong&#8221; with the U.S. system sends her to experience reconciliation in Rwanda and South Africa, arts education in Uganda and Jamaica, imprisonment of women in Thailand, solitary confinement in the &#8220;supermaxes&#8221; of Brazil, private prisons in Australia, &#8220;reentry&#8221; in Singapore, and the &#8220;humane&#8221; model prisons of Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to &#8220;minimize the inevitable anthropological rubbernecking,&#8221; Dreisinger goes into the prisons as volunteer, teacher, or mentor to collect \u201c<em>Human<\/em> stories.\u201d More than just an observer, Dreisinger brings home alternative methods that could change America&#8217;s \u201cbereft system.\u201d Narrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinadelaine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christina Delaine<\/a> gives earnest voice to Dreisinger&#8217;s odyssey, moving seamlessly between frustration and joy, setback and progress, recidivism and triumph.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: modified from <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2016\/05\/media\/lj-media-reviews-may-1-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Audio,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, May 1, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo one said this global journey would be smooth,\u201d writes Baz Dreisinger with controlled understatement. 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