Travis C. Pratt (2009). Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in the United States. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 153 pp. $26.95
In Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in the United States, Travis C. Pratt, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Washington State University, takes an evidence-based approach to explore the consequences of what he terms America's "addiction to incarceration," which has led to more than a 600% increase in imprisonment with America becoming in recent years the nation that imprisons more of its population than any other nation. In his words,
