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100 1  Simon, Jonathan,|d1959-|eauthor. 
245 10 Mass incarceration on trial :|ba remarkable court decision
       and the future of prisons in America /|cJonathan  Simon.
       |h[Boundless electronic resource] 
264  1 New York :|bNew Press, The,|c2014. 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped
       by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million 
       Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction
       of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast 
       and overcrowded, they are degrading-relying on racist 
       gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to 
       maintain a tenuous order.  Mass Incarceration on Trial 
       examines a series of landmark decisions about prison 
       conditions-culminating in Brown v. Plata, decided in May 
       2011 by the U.S. Supreme Court-that has opened an 
       unexpected escape route from this trap of "tough on crime"
       politics. This set of rulings points toward values that 
       could restore legitimate order to American prisons and, 
       ultimately, lead to the demise of mass incarceration. 
       Simon argues that much like the school segregation cases 
       of the last century, these new cases represent a major 
       breakthrough in jurisprudence-moving us from a hollowed-
       out vision of civil rights to the threshold of human 
       rights and giving court backing for the argument that, 
       because the conditions it creates are fundamentally cruel 
       and unusual, mass incarceration is inherently 
       unconstitutional.  Since the publication of Michelle 
       Alexander's The New Jim Crow, states around the country 
       have begun to question the fundamental fairness of our 
       criminal justice system. This book offers a provocative 
       and brilliant reading to the end of mass incarceration. "-
       -|cProvided by publisher. 
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588    Description based on print version record. 
650  0 Prisons|xLaw and legislation|zUnited States. 
650  0 Correctional law|zUnited States. 
650  0 Criminal justice, Administration of|zUnited States. 
650  0 Punishment|xLaw and legislation|zUnited States. 
776 08 |iElectronic reproduction of (manifestation):|aSimon, 
       Jonathan, 1959-|tMass incarceration on trial|dNew York : 
       New Press, The, 2014|z9781595587695|w(DLC)  2013045415 
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       /title/0011213970|zFound on Boundless