Table of Contents:
  • Prison deters crime / Bruce Bayley
  • Prison does not deter crime / Joel Waldfogel
  • Prisons can rehabilitate / Shreveport Times
  • Prison rehabilitation efforts are ineffective / Dana Pico
  • Alternative sentencing would be more effective in prison / Ruth David
  • Alternatives to prison are dangerous and ineffective / Thomas Sowell
  • America's imprisonment practices are racist / Glenn Loury
  • America's imprisonment practices are not racist / Heather Mac Donald
  • Mandatory minimum sentencing is just in drug cases / Jodi L. Avergun
  • Mandatory minimum sentencing is unjust / Robert Hooker and Robert Hirsh
  • Imprisoning drug users is just / Theodore Dalrymple
  • Imprisoning nonviolent drug users is unjust / Michael Huemer
  • Disenfranchising prisoners is just / Ben Johnson
  • Disenfranchising prisoners is unjust / Conor Clarke and Greg Yothers
  • American prisons are humane / Harley G. Lappin
  • Overcrowding in American prisons is inhumane / Craig Haney
  • Stun technology makes prisons safer / Jeff Wiehe
  • Stun technology is inhumane and dangerous / Anne-Marie Cusac
  • California must spend more on prison than health care / J. Clark Kelso
  • California should not spend excessively on prison health care / Debra Saunders
  • Allowing inmate moms to raise their children in prison is beneficial / Suzanne Smalley
  • Raising children in prison may be harmful / Carol Lloyd
  • Juveniles should not be placed in adult prisons / Campaign for Youth Justice
  • Life without parole in the adult system is reasonable for some juvenile offenders / Charles D. Stimson and Andrew M. Grossman
  • The mentally ill should not be placed in the prison system / Jamie Fellner
  • Focusing on mental illness in prison prevents real reform / Susan Mortimer.