What Are Prisons For?, livre audio

• Blends personal, professional and theoretical perspectives to address big questions around the purpose of incarceration

• Author has 25 years’ experience of working in prisons which he uses to demystify and illuminate the debate

• Allows the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard

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.

1. A Journey into Prisons

2. A Brief History of Imprisonment in the West

3. The Emergence of Prison around the World

4. Mass Incarceration, Race and Crime

5. Do the Crime, Do the Time? Who Are Prisoners?

6. Experiencing Prison

7. Where Next for Prisons?