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Opposing viewpoints seriesSummary: The number of Americans who live behind bars has increased by 550 percent over the last 40 years. This has been the result of aggressive tough-on-crime legislation that had more harmful effects than lawmakers could have foreseen. Experts now see the problem but disagree on the solutions. Does incarceration limit crime, or does it simply feed into a cycle of problems that harm society and create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 365 MASBeety, Valena E.
Summary: "From a former federal prosecutor turned champion of the wrongfully convicted, this powerful and profound book follows the stories of women reclaiming their freedom and creates a new blueprint for remaking our deeply flawed criminal legal system." -- Inside front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 BEELarson, Doran
Summary: "In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LARDreisinger, Baz
Summary: "Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline, Dreisinger looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of a world to which most are denied access, and a rethinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 DREPfaff, John F.
Summary: "Pfaff argues that existing accounts of the causes of mass incarceration are fundamentally misguided. The most widely accepted explanations--the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons--actually tell us much less than we like to think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 PFALaw, Victoria
Summary: "Utilizing narrative, statistics and history, this book identifies and dispels 21 popularly-held myths about mass incarceration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 LAWGrisham, John
Summary: Cullen Post, an Episcopal minister and lawyer, fights to exonerate Quincy Miller, who has spent over twenty years in prison for killing a lawyer, only to discover that powerful forces want the murder to remain unsolved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2019