Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration
“There is a better path, and this book shows us how to find that new direction.”-Los Angeles Times,“Downsizing Prisonsoffers an innovative approach to reducing the strain on America’s overcrowded prisons: namely, by fixing the dysfunctional parole systems in states around the country. . . . Jacobson’s book comes at exactly the right time.”-Mother Jones,“Policy wonks, journalists, elected officials and students of criminal justice will find the arguments and data in this book worth grappling with.”-New York Newsday,“Should be read by the public and used by policy makers. Essential.”-Choice,“Downsizing Prisonsexplains not only why current incarceration policy is not working, but what we can do about it. Jacobson’s blueprint provides an overview of a pragmatic strategy that can reduce the size of our bloated prison system while improving prospects for public safety.”-Marc Mauer,author ofRace to Incarcerate