Not Only in America: On Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory”
Spencer J. Weinreich reviews Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.”
Spencer J. Weinreich is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and a lecturer in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is currently writing a history of solitary confinement, entitled “An Experimental Box.”
Spencer J. Weinreich reviews Benjamin D. Weber’s “American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.”