incarceration: Book Recommendation

[Jay Marvin]

Edward Bunker's "Little Boy Blue" is a great look at the penal system starting from
foster homes up to the "joint". The book is fiction, but based on his experience as
a life long "con". He did thirty years before he went straight, and was everything
from a bank robber to a merchandise burglar.

Jay

(my only post for today! :))

Sam Pawlett wrote:


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> >
> >         Unfortunately, I've been too busy really follow the discussion on
> > incarceration that's been going on, but it is a subject in which I am
> > intensely interested.  Right now I'm taking an undergrad course at Berkeley
> > on criminal justice and I'd really like to recommend my professor's book.
> > It's called "Crime and Punishment in America," with the subtitle "Why the
> >