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What Are Prisons For?

Name: What Are Prisons For?
ISBN: 9781529226904

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Series: 1 of 15
Duration: 3H 55min
Language: English
Format
Category: True Crime

What does a good prison look like? Over eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works?

Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years’ experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he asks whether there is a better way to achieve what society wants from its prisons.

Release date

Audiobook: 1 November 2024
Ebook: 26 March 2024