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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Simon, Jonathan, 1959- author.     Subjects     Prisons -- Law and legislation -- United States.     Correctional law -- United States.     Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.     Punishment -- Law and legislation -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Simon, Jonathan, 1959- author.       by title:      Mass incarceration o...         MARC Display

Mass incarceration on trial : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America / Jonathan Simon. by Simon, Jonathan, 1959- author. New York : The New Press, 2014. Subjects Prisons -- Law and legislation -- United States.   Correctional law -- United States.   Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.   Punishment -- Law and legislation -- United States. ISBN:  9781595587695 (hbk.) 1595587691 (hbk.) Description:  ix, 209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents:  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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 344.035 Simon Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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