TY  - SOUND
AU  - Smith,Jeff
TI  - Mr. Smith goes to prison: what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis 
SN  - 9781427275653
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Macmillan Audio
KW  - Smith, Jeff,
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ex-legislators
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Corrections
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Title from container; Compact discs; Read by the author
N2  - The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one. In 2009, Smith lied to the Feds about seemingly minor campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and a day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Smith saw the power of millions of inmates harnessed as a source of renewable energy for America's prison-industrial complex, a system that aims to build better criminals instead of better citizens. He offers practical solutions to jailbreak the nation from the financially crushing grip of its own prisons and to jump-start the rehabilitation of the millions living behind bars
ER  -