Metamorphosis : How to Transform Punishment in America / Robert A Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, Robert A, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imprisonment--United States.

Imprisonment.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiatric and medical care in prisons is woefully inadequate. Some people believe that contracting out prison services to for-profit companies is a recipe for mistreatment. Robert Ferguson argues that these reforms barely scratch the surface of what is wrong with American prisons: an atmosphere of malice and humiliation that subjects prisoners and guards alike to constant degradation. Bolstered by insights from hundreds of letters written by prisoners, Ferguson makes the case for an entirely new concept of prisons and their purpose: an "inner architectonics of reform" that will provide better education for all involved in prisons, more imaginative and careful use of technology, more sophisticated surveillance systems, and better accountability.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: The Need for New Answers

1. The Linguistic Tangle in Treatment of the Incarcerated

2. Do Americans Like to Punish?

3. Accounting for Unaccountability

4. Rights Talk and the Enabling of Wrongs

5. Sentencing the Disappearing Convict

6. The Technology of Confi nement

7. Prison Talk

8. Education in Prison Reform

9. What Is Punishment For?

10. The Architectonics of Reform

Coda: Being in Prison

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-23529-1

OCLC:

1030892428