Downsizing prisons : how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration / Michael Jacobson.

Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this s...

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Main Author: Jacobson, Michael, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York and London : New York University Press, ©2005.
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