Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health

✍ Scribed by Drucker, Ernest (editor)

• Book ID: 109629681
• Publisher: The New Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620972793

✦ Synopsis

“A powerful call for reform."
—NPR
An all-star team of criminal justice experts present timely, innovative, and humane ways to end mass incarceration
Mass incarceration will end—there is an emerging consensus that we've been locking up too many people for too long. But with more than 2.2 million Americans behind bars right now, how do we go about bringing people home? Decarcerating America collects some of the leading thinkers in the criminal justice reform movement to strategize about how to cure America of its epidemic of mass punishment.
With sections on front-end approaches, as well as improving prison conditions and re-entry, the book includes pieces by leaders across the criminal justice reform movement: Danielle Sered of Common Justice describes successful programs for youth with violent offenses; Robin Steinberg of the Bronx Defenders argues for more resources for defense attorneys to diminish plea bargains; Kathy Boudin...