Mass Incarceration On Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

Jonathan Simon

Mass Incarceration On Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The New Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 November 2016
Pages
224
ISBN
9781620972540

Mass Incarceration On Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

Jonathan Simon

For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading–relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a to maintain a tenuous order.

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