It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Going Up the River by Joseph T. Hallinan
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest growth industry, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that has become entrenched without public awareness, much less voter consent. He answers, in an extraordinary way, the essential question:...
Going Up the River by Joseph T. Hallinan is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Going Up the River aloud.
Going Up the River is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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