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Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration

Name: Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration
ISBN: 9780814742747

Michael Jacobson

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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 crime nor create more public safety. Simply put, throwing away the key is not the answer.

Kategorien:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences

Jahr:

2005

Verlag:

NYU Press

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

292

ISBN 10:

0814742742