Decarcerating America
Subtitle: from mass punishment to public health
By: edited by Ernest Drucker
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781620972786
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Imprisonment; Law reform; Correctional law; Law and legislation; Prisons; Punishment
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ending mass incarceration : six bold reforms  -- Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear, and Carlos E. Monteiro; title: Better by half : the New York City story  -- Judith A. Green and Vincent Schiraldi; title: Lessons from California  -- Michael Romano; title: The role of judges  -- Judge Robert Sweet and James Thompson; title: Public defense and decarceration : advocacy on the front lines  -- Robin Steinberg, Skylar Albertson, and Rachel Maremont; title: Making drug policy reform work for meaningful decarceration  -- Gabriel Sayegh; title: Transforming our responses to violence  -- Danielle Sered; title: Minimizing the impact of parental incarceration  -- Elizabeth Gaynes and Tanya Krupat; title: Health and decarceration  -- Ross MacDonald and Homer Venters; title: Release aging people in prison  -- Mujahid Farid and Laura Whitehorn; title: Health care as a vehicle for decarceration  -- Daliah Heller; title: Come close in : voices of survivors of mass incarceration  -- Kathy Boudin; title: Dealing with drug use after prison : harm reduction therapy  -- Jeannie Little, Jenifer Talley, Scott Kellogg, Maurice Byrd, and Sheila Vakharia; title: Prisons to ploughshares : new economies for prison towns -- Eric Lotke.