elliet.38’s Reviews > Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity > Status Update

This book is probably one of the hardest book I've ever started to read. And I read A LOT about incarceration. Did you know that in 1996, Bill Clinton interrupted his election tour to witness the execution of a severe mentally disabled person on death row?

I knew what I was getting into, when I've started this book, but big uff. Did you know that 46% of people in state prisons in the US in 1978 had a family member who was killed by a gun? This book is hard. Everyone should read that to learn more about WHY people end up in prison.