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Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

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For nearly 40 years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading. Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions that has opened an unexpected escape route from this trap of 'tough on crime' politics. This set of rulings points toward values that could restore legitimate order to American ...

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Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America 2016, New Press

ISBN-13: 9781620972540

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Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America 2014, New Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781595587695

Hardcover