Mass incarceration on trial : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Simon, Jonathan, 1959- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : The New Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Prisons > Law and legislation > United States. Correctional law > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Punishment > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Inhuman punishment
Total incapacitation : the 1970s and the birth of an extreme penology
The house of fear : dignity and risk in Madrid v. Gomez
Engines of madness : Coleman v. Wilson
Torture on the installment plan : prisons without medicine in Plata v. Davis
Places of extreme peril : Coleman-Plata v. Schwarzenegger and California's prisons in the era of chronic hyper-overcrowding
Dignity cascade : Brown v. Plata and mass incarceration as a human rights problem
The new common sense of high-crime societies.