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Joseph Hallinan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has been writing about the criminal-justice system for almost a decade, first as a local reporter and later as a nationally syndicated correspondent for the Newhouse News Service. In 1997, Hallinan was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he continued to investigate American prisons. He now writes for The Wall Street Journal and lives in Chicago.
A searing montage of human horrors served up in a terse, no-nonsense style.... Hallinan's sharp, enterprising reporting makes Going Up the River a valuable, accessible snapshot of the damage kicked up in our quagmire of national incarceration. Every senator, congressman and state legislator, as well as every governor and the president, should read Going Up the River.... A powerful, level-headed book, [it] may just, hopefully, accelerate the pace of change. A clear-eyed, sleekly written and deeply disturbing tour.... [An] essential portrait of the current state of American justice.
