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Simon, Jonathan, 1959-
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Prisons -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Correctional law -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Punishment -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Mass Incarceration o...
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Mass Incarceration on Trial [electronic resource] : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America / Jonathan Simon.
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Simon, Jonathan, 1959-
New York : The New Press, 2013.
Subjects
Prisons -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Correctional law -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Punishment -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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9781595587923 (electronic bk.)
1595587926 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (225 p.)
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Total Incapacitation; 2 The House of Fear; 3 Engines of Madness; 4 Torture on the Installment Plan; 5 Places of Extreme Peril; 6 Dignity Cascade; 7 The New Common Sense of High- Crime Societies; Notes; Index
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Once the home of the most progressive prison system in the United States, California has now become the most extreme example of mass incarceration since the 1980s. In this inspired and original work, prize-winning criminal justice author Jonathan Simon argues that California provides a crucial window for learning what has gone wrong with American justice. The Supreme Court's recent 5-4 ruling in the landmark Brown v. Plata case, a culmination of more than twenty years of litigation about medical and mental health care in California's massive prison system, guarantees that Californi.
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