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Decarcerating America : From Mass Punishment to Public Health - Ernest Drucker

Decarcerating America

From Mass Punishment to Public Health

By: Ernest Drucker (Editor)

eBook | 20 February 2018

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“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. But with more than 2.2 million Americans behind bars right now, how do we go about bringing people home? Decarcerating America collects some of the leading thinkers in the criminal justice reform movement to strategize about how to cure America of its epidemic of mass punishment.

With sections on front-end approaches, as well as improving prison conditions and re-entry, the book includes pieces by leaders across the criminal justice reform movement: Danielle Sered of Common Justice describes successful programs for youth with violent offenses; Robin Steinberg of the Bronx Defenders argues for more resources for defense attorneys to diminish plea bargains; Kathy Boudin suggests changes to the parole model; Jeannie Little offers an alternative for mental health and drug addiction issues; and Eric Lotke offers models of new industries to replace the prison economy. Editor Ernest Drucker applies the tools of epidemiology to help us cure what he calls "a plague of prisons."

Decarcerating America will be an indispensable roadmap as the movement to challenge incarceration in America gains critical mass—it shows us how to get people out of prisons, and the more appropriate responses to crime. The ideas presented in this volume are what we are fighting for when we fight against the New Jim Crow.
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“Decarcerating America provides both a useful survey of failures and a set of forward-looking, evidence-driven solutions. It is a welcome addition to a growing field.”
—NPR

“An urgent anthology suggesting progressive approaches to ending the era of overimprisonment . . . . A unified and hopeful collection that should interest attorneys, activists, and open-minded law enforcement professionals.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Passionate, provocative, and well documented, this wide-ranging survey is recommended for students, activists, and policy makers.”
—Library Journal
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