Subject: Corrections/Criminal Justice
From asylum to prison: Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
Prisons and asylums developed in parallel in the United States as institutions dedicated to the quarantine, detention, and punishment of the socially marginal. A widely […]
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Charged: the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration
The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair […]
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Until we reckon: violence, mass incarceration, and a road to repair
In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vexing problem of […]
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The master plan: my journey from life in prison to a life of purpose
Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life he wouldn’t leave the house without a gun. One […]
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Good kids, bad city: a story of race and wrongful conviction in America
Documents the true story of one of the longest wrongful imprisonment cases in U.S. history, detailing how three African-American men were incarcerated for nearly four […]
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Punishment without crime: how our massive misdemeanor system traps the innocent and makes America more unequal
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on […]
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The meaning of life: the case for abolishing life sentences
Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis of The Sentencing Project argue that there is no practical or moral justification for a sentence longer than twenty years. […]
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Homeward: life in the year after prison
In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments […]
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Anatomy of a false confession: the interrogation and conviction of Brendan Dassey
Anatomy of a False Confession takes the reader inside the interrogation room and inside the courtroom to expose the interrogators’ tricks, the prosecutors’ ploys, and […]
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Unusually cruel: prisons, punishment, and the real American exceptionalism
The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, […]
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