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Book Review: Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics is an important contribution to the discussion of mass incarceration, and it will likely be a controversial one. Written by Marie Gottschalk, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Caught is a scholarly work. It is by no means an easy read, not because of any deficiencies on Gottschalk’s part (indeed, she is a clear and colorful writer), but rather because Caught is laden with facts. Accompanying the 284 pages of text are 125 pages of endnotes and a selected bibliography of 27 pages. Any one of Caught’s 12 chapters is worthy of an essay or could be the subject of a conference.