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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | 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 spectacular rise of the general prison population. After overseeing the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons, he convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce cri. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814742747 0814742742 1429414243 9781429414241 9780814743805 0814743803 |