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Decarcerating America : from mass punishment to public health / edited by Ernest Drucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drucker, Ernest.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- Prisons--Law and legislation--United States.
- Prisons.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Punishment--United States.
- Punishment.
- Correctional law--United States.
- Correctional law.
- Law reform--United States.
- Law reform.
- Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, charts
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2018.
- New York : The New Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "A powerful call for reform." -- NPR An all-star team of criminal justice experts present timely, innovative, and humane ways to end mass incarceration Mass incarceration will end--there is an emerging consensus that we've been locking up too many people for too long.
- Contents:
- Ending mass incarceration : six bold reforms to rapidly reduce incarceration without compromising public safety / Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear, and Carlos E. Monteiro
- Better by half : the New York City story of winning large-scale decarceration while increasing public safety / Judith A. Green and Vincent Schiraldi
- Lessons from California on prison and jail downsizing / Michael Romano
- The role of judges in ending mass incarceration / Judge Robert Sweet and James Thompson
- Public defense and decarceration : advocacy on the front lines / Robin Steinberg, Skylar Albertson, and Rachel Maremont
- Making drug policy reform work for meaningful decarceration / Gabriel Sayegh
- Transforming our responses to violence / Danielle Sered
- Minimizing the impact of parental incarceration / Elizabeth Gaynes and Tanya Krupat
- Health and decarceration / Ross MacDonald and Homer Venters
- Release aging people in prison : a sound policy initiative necessary for meaningful decarceration / Mujahid Farid and Laura Whitehorn
- Health care as a vehicle for decarceration / Daliah Heller
- Come close in : voices of survivors of mass incarceration / Kathy Boudin
- Dealing with drug use after prison : harm reduction therapy / Jeannie Little, Jenifer Talley, Scott Kellogg, Maurice Byrd, and Sheila Vakharia
- Prisons to ploughshares : new economies for prison towns / Eric Lotke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781620972793
- 1620972794
- OCLC:
- 1027480696
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