Prisons

A vivid look at the end of the line in the American legal system where the rule of law gives way to the correctional process. Prisons: Houses of Darkness reveals the astonishing lawlessness by which sentencing judges prison authorities and parole boards actually operate. It provides an eye-opening history of prisons and an overview of daily prison routine from Attica to Soledad-- much of it related in the inmates' own words-- which shatters the myth of rehabilitation and exposes the injustices of prison life. This is an urgent call for reform a powerful case for applying the rule of law to the American way of punishment.