Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
By Jonathan Simon.
Description
In this impassioned plea for human dignity” (Kirkus Reviews) Jonathan Simoncalled one of the outstanding criminologists of his generation” by Nikolas Rose of the London School of Economicscharts a surprising path to end mass incarceration in America. Using the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Plata on overcrowding in California prisons as his starting point, Simon suggests that incarcerating people on a mass” scale simply cannot be accomplished in comportment with the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. In an argument that th...
ISBN(s)
9781620972540
