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After Prisons? : Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment by William G. Martin; Joshua M. Price; John M. Eason; Luis R. Gonzlez; Chungse Jung; Brendan McQuade; Andrew J. Pragacz; Kevin Revier is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is After Prisons? : Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment about?

As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history. But in the last few years, the population has decreased, in some states by almost a third. A broad consensus is emerging to reduce prison rolls. Politicians have called for repealing the harshest sentencing laws of the war on drugs, abolishing mandatory minimums and closing correctional facilities. Does the decrease in the prison population herald the dismantling of mass incarceration? This book provides an answer. Drawing on original research from across New York State, the contributors argue that while massive decarceration is taking place, the outcome to date is not the one wished for by reformers, namely a more just system. While drug law reform is clearly upon us, for example, a moral panic about heroin addiction and phantom meth labs has recently reached a fever pitch. As the penitentiary population drops and prisons close, the number of people in jail has swelled. New intelligence-led policing, and the rise of a reentry

Author

William G. Martin; Joshua M. Price; John M. Eason; Luis R. Gonzlez; Chungse Jung; Brendan McQuade; Andrew J. Pragacz; Kevin Revier

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic; Lexington Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781498539159

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Social_sciences