Mass incarceration on trial [electronic resource] : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America / Jonathan Simon.
Simon, Jonathan, 1959- author.
2014
KF9730 .S566 2014eb
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Mass incarceration on trial [electronic resource] : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America / Jonathan Simon.
Author
Simon, Jonathan, 1959- author.
ISBN
9781595587923 electronic book
9781595587695 hardcover
Published
New York : The New Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) : illustrations
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KF9730 .S566 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
344.7303/5
Summary
Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions-culminating in Brown v. Plata, decided in May 2011 by the U.S. Supreme Court-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 prisons and, ultimately, lead to the demise of mass incarceration. This book offers a provocative and brilliant reading to the end of mass incarceration.
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Includes index.
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Mass incarceration on trial : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America.
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Introduction: Inhuman punishment
Total incapacitation : the 1970s and the birth of an extreme penology
The house of fear : dignity and risk in Madrid v. Gomez
Engines of madness : Coleman v. Wilson
Torture on the installment plan : prisons without medicine in Plata v. Davis
Places of extreme peril : Coleman-Plata v. Schwarzenegger and California's prisons in the era of chronic hyper-overcrowding
Dignity cascade : Brown v. Plata and mass incarceration as a human rights problem
The new common sense of high-crime societies.

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