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Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, BK Currents Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"35,000 Americans are arrested every day, and the number of prisoners has increased 500% over the last three decades. Truthout Executive Director Maya Schenwar shows that incarceration actually doesn't deter crime, looks at its devastating effect on families and communities, and offers more humane and more effective alternatives"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there and the things he learned: how to escape the attentions of fellow inmate Cornbread and his friends in the Aryan Brotherhood; what constitutes a prison car and who's allowed to ride in yours;...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichaes-paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time-there...
9) Disproportionate minority confinement: a review of the research literature from 1989 through 2001
Author
Series
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Pfaff argues that existing accounts of the causes of mass incarceration are fundamentally misguided. The most widely accepted explanations--the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons--actually tell us much less than we like to think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony...
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