Prison Clown

Although written with a touch of humor, Prison Clown is a serious book that sheds light on the reason the United States leads the world in the numbers of incarcerated people--and way too many for nonviolent offenses. As Richard Keith explains, murky cases with questionable witnesses can lead to average citizens serving time as inmates when they're neither hardened criminals nor pose a threat to society. Keith exposes the myth that minimum security Federal prisons are "country clubs." Throug...