All Alone in the World

An award-winning journalist's "heart wrenching" (The San Antonio Observer) look at children with parents in prison--aNewsweek"book of the week" and anEast Bay Expressbestseller. In this "moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families" (Parents' Press), award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children--over two million of them--torn apart by our current incarceration policy. Described as "meticulously reported and sensitively written" bySalon, the book is "brimming with compelling case studies...and recommendations for change" (Orlando Sentinel);Our Weekly Los Angelescalls it "a must-read for lawmakers as well as for lawbreakers."