Books Related to Punishment
Criminal to Critic: Reflections Amid the American Experiment by James E. Palombo with a Foreword and Afterword by Randall G. Shelden. Click here for ordering information:
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Foreword.An amazing and shocking story that argues that convict leasing served to extend slavery in the South until the end of World War II. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon: http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/
California Prisons
Stop Filling Prisons, California -- Advocates to Take Sentencing Reform Case to Voters
Can't get enough California inmates
California Prison Crisis - see Little Hoover Commission Report
Calif. to Transfer Inmates Out of State
Census & Prisons
Census Bureau’s Counting of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting Districts.
Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration
Jails and local communities: http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08-04_REP_JailingCommunities_AC.pdf
Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons
New!!! Harmful Effects of Prolonged Isolated Confinement
Disenfranchisement
Recent Developments Concerning Felony Disenfranchisement
The Sentencing Project: Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997-2008. http://sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/fd_statedisenfranchisement.pdf
Growth of Prisons
Just when you thought the era of prison building was at an end comes this story: Can a new prison save a town?
State prison numbers drop for 1st time since 1972
Latest report on prisons: growth last year slower than before. http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/09-12_FAC_Prisoners08_PS.pdf
America's Prison Spree Has Brutal Impact
Fiscal Pressures Lead Some States to Free Inmates Early
Even the conservative Heritage Foundation thinks this is too much!! 1 percent of U.S. adults behind bars
Two follow-up articles: Prison-growth study debated
Unlocking America: Why and How to Reduce America's Prison Population - http://www.jfa-associates.com/publications/srs/UnlockingAmerica.pdf
Jailing Nation: How Did Our Prison System Become Such a Nightmare?
Pruning Prisons: How Cutting Corrections Can Save Money and Protect Public Safety. http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/09_05_REP_PruningPrisons_AC_PS.pdf
Prison and Jail Population Rises Again - click here for full report: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim05.pdf
The Impact of Mandatory Sentencing Policies in the United States - Testimony by Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project
Health Care & the Mentally Ill
Poor medical care at Nevada prison cited
Criminalization of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders
Imprisonment and Crime
From the Sentencing Project! http://www.sentencingproject.org/pdfs/incarceration-crime.pdf
Shelden: Imprisonment and Crime Rates (3/12/07)
The Innocent
What happens to those who are exonerated after years behind bars or on death row? Read this two-part series in the New York Times: Free and Uneasy
Cases of innocent men released from prison.
Jails
Jail’s Return in Brooklyn Raises Hopes and Fears
Those on parole have paid their debts
Give ex-felons a second chance
Prison Industrial Complex
Arizona May Put State Prisons in Private Hands
Hard-luck Montana Town pushes to house Gitmo detainees
Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex: http://www.justicepolicy.org/content.php?hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=75
It pays to have money. For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail
Detaining Immigrant Families & CCA: Two Related Articles
Race and Imprisonment
The Sentencing Project: Schools and Prisons: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/rd_brownvboard.pdf
Census Study Eyes Blacks in Prison
Excellent piece by Paul Street - Reverse Reparations: Race, Place, and the Vicious Circle of Mass Incarceration
Total Institutions
Total Institutions and Slavery
Welcome to Jail: Some Dramaturgical Notes on Admission to a Total Institution
Women and Prisons
For Women Behind Bars, "Health Care" Can Be Deadly