Captive State How American Prisons Reshaped Gender, Race, and Power

What if the most influential institution in modern America isn't the school or the church, the corporation or the ballot box—but the prison?In Captive State, a searing and meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, the American penitentiary emerges not as a peripheral system of punishment but as a central architect of the nation's social order. With the narrative drive of a courtroom thri...