The "million dollar inmate" [electronic resource] : the financial and social burden of nonviolent offenders / Heather Ahn-Redding.

Introduction and early sentencing : an introduction to the "million dollar inmate"
Punishment in the twentieth century : run-on sentences
Sentencing today : a sentence is a sentence
period!
Prison conditions
The financial costs of incarceration
Expensive prisoners
The social costs of incarceration : the hidden yet expensive side of prison
Retribution : can we have our "just desert" and eat it too?
Incapacitation : if we lock them up, maybe they'll just go away!
Some specifics on deterrence, in general
Prison rehabilitation and treatment : where is the correction in our correctional facilities?
The benefits of incarceration
real and perceived
Policy recommendations.