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American Prison: : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment by
The author provides a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. We can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from.
Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration by
In this book the author reveals how unchecked power is the under-reported cause of injustice and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle.
Exploring and Understanding Careers in Criminal Justice by
This book explores the criminal justice career landscape by providing a glimpse into the different criminal justice careers and provides advice as to how to prepare to enter those career fields. This book includes personal profiles that exemplify real work in the criminal justice profession; these have been written by current employees, some retired and some by exemplary leaders in the field.
Indefinite by
An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail-especially in counties where courts are jammedwith cases. City and county jails, detention centers, police lockups, and other temporary holding facilities are regularly overcrowded, poorly funded, and the buildings are often in disrepair. American jails admit over ten million people every year, but very little is known about what happens tothem while they're locked away.Indefinite is an ethnographic study of a California county jail that reflects on what it means to do jail time and what it does to men. Michael L. Walker spent several extended spells in jail, having been arrested while trying to pay parking tickets in graduate school. This book is an intimateaccount of his experience and in it he shares the routines, rhythms, and subtle meanings that come with being incarcerated. Walker shows how punishment in jail is much more than the deprivation of liberties. It is, he argues, purposefully degrading. Jail creates a racial politics that organizesdaily life, moves men from clock time to event time, normalizes trauma, and imbues residents with substantial measures of vulnerability. Deputies used self-centered management styles to address the problems associated with running a jail, some that magnified individual conflicts to potential groupconflicts and others that created divisions between residents for the sake of control. And though not every deputy indulged, many gave themselves over to the pleasures of punishment.
Mass Incarceration by
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. This compelling volume tackles tough questions from many different angles.
The Master Plan: My journey from life in prison to a life of purpose by
The memoir of a man who used hard work and a Master Plan to turn a life sentence into a second chance. Deciding to make something of his life, Chris embarked on a journey of self-improvement: reading, working out, learning languages, even starting a business. Today Chris is a successful social entrepreneur who employs returning citizens; a mentor; and a public speaker. He is the embodiment of second chances, and this is his unforgettable story.
Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century: Human dumping ground by
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy pre-trial detention and the often abysmal living conditions in these institutions.
The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why life behind bars varies around the world by
In this book the author develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed - sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners - matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons.
The Second Chance Club by
A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book.
