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Title:
Decarcerating America : from mass punishment to public health / edited by Ernest Drucker.
Author:
Drucker, Ernest M., 1940- editor.
Publication Information:
New York : The New Press, 2018.

©2018
Call Number:
KF9730 .D43 2018
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9781620972786
Physical Description:
viii, 319 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Ending mass incarceration : six bold reforms / Better by half : the New York City story / Lessons from California / The role of judges / Public defense and decarceration : advocacy on the front lines / Making drug policy reform work for meaningful decarceration / Transforming our responses to violence / Minimizing the impact of parental incarceration / Health and decarceration / Release aging people in prison / Health care as a vehicle for decarceration / Come close in : voices of survivors of mass incarceration / Dealing with drug use after prison : harm reduction therapy / Prisons to ploughshares : new economies for prison towns
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