A review by olliums
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

4.0

Good and interesting book, glad I read it, I feel that I still don't quite grasp the reason that CA in particular had the huge boom in prison industry vs. every other state and place-- I think the book links it to the three-strikes laws and also does some dives on the incentives of towns to become prison towns, which were intriguing. I would def recommend to someone smarter and with more background knowledge on this than me but I still feel like i got a lot out of it

PS I had this on my list for like 2 years but then they released an audiobook this summer- it wasn't GREAT on audio but way better than nothing so thank you publishers