Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime by Joel Dyer Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime
Book Review: An excellent and insightful book
Summary: 5 Stars
Dyer is rather a leftist, and I'm more of a libertarian, but on this subject we see eye to eye. The politicians, corrections industry, and opinion pollsters have formed an "Iron Triangle" in support of ever more incarceration. In particular, large numbers of nonviolent offenders are being locked up for no good reason at all. (The resulting clog tends to make it harder to put away those who really belong behind bars, too.) The really bad consequences of this (millions of people with grudges against society, learning a lot about violence) have yet to really be visited upon our society. But they probably will be, and it won't be the politicians and lobbyists who pay the price.Book Review: Excellent presentation of an unpopular opinion
Summary: 4 Stars
The sad tragedy of this book's thesis is this: Any politician who brings up the senselessness of our current criminal justice system commits political suicide. The book exposes a big secret: violent crime is down, but media coverage of violence that is up! We've doubled prison terms and quadrupled the prison population to fight a phantom war on crime.Very well done, heartily recommenced.
Would have been five stars, but in places he does make annoying asides about violence (and God knows why, sex) in entertainment.
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