Adam Gopnik Caging Of America Analysis

In “Caging of America,” written by Adam Gopnik is an outline of everything that is wrong with the mass incarceration problem in America. We have come so reliant on methods that do not work that we have become blind to the effects it has on prisoners. We believe have set up a successful model to handle mass incarceration, in addition to our miss guided belief that we have fixed a problem.
To say nothing of the treatment of prisoner locked in a virtual mindless existence trying to escape the “Groundhogs Day” of prison life. To summarize Gopnik illustrates what prison life is really like, how “attenuated panic, of watchful paranoia—anxiety and boredom and fear mixed into a kind of enveloping fog.” For this reason, it is no wonder most prisoners