All Alone In The World: Children of the Incarcerated

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A moving condemnation of the US penal system and its families - and a smash hit mainstream publication for the New Press in its US release. Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children - over two million of them - currently torn apart by the US incarceration policy - brimming with compelling case studies and recommendations for change, this is investigative reporting at its finest.

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"An urgent invitation to care for all children as our own."
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Author of Random Family

"In terms of elegance, breadth and persuasiveness, All Alone in the World deserves to be placed alongside other classics of the genre such as Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities, Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family. But to praise the book's considerable literary or sociological merit seems beside the point. This book belongs not only on shelves but also in the hands of judges and lawmakers."
San Francisco Chronicle

"Serious, moving, and well organized this book could help galvanize a national will to tackle such problems."
Library Journal, Starred Review

"Well researched and smoothly written. Bernstein's book pumps up awareness of the problems [and] provides a checklist for what needs to be done."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"This is the book we children of prisoners have been waiting for."
Chesa Boudin

Author Bio

Nell Bernstein is an award-winning journalist and former Soros Justice Media Fellow at the Open Society Institute of New York whose articles have appeared in Newsday, Salon, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She lives outside of Berkeley, California.