As a pessimistic person, I find it encouraging to encounter even gloomier souls. Their existence raises the possibility that I’m not losing my mind but making my way down the proper path, perhaps a tad too slowly.
So I am glad I read Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Marie Gottschalk takes a grim subject — mass incarceration — and left me thinking the situation is far worse than I imagined.
Gottschalk, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, is a relentless chronicler of what she calls, somewhat stiffly, the “carceral state”. Her book has more than 100 pages of footnotes and a bibliography that runs to more than a score more. She knows the numbers — and they are harrowing.
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