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Opponents of decarceration include think tanks that assert mass decarceration would release violent criminals back onto the streets [12] to re-offend; law enforcement organizations that argue drug decriminalization and legalization will escalate crime; [13] [14] prison guard unions that seek to preserve jobs and economic security; [15] "tough on crime" lawmakers responding to public concerns ...
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [ 1 ] and the Lillian Smith Book Award .
The Sentencing Project is a Washington, D.C.–based research and advocacy centre working for decarceration in the United States and seeking to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system. The organisation produces nonpartisan reports and research for use by state and federal policymakers, administrators, and journalists.
Some supporters of decarceration and prison abolition also work to end solitary confinement, the death penalty, and the construction of new prisons through non-reformist reforms. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Others support books-to-prisoner projects and defend prisoners' right to access information and library services.
According to Michelle Alexander in a 2010 book, the United States "imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid". [32] The black imprisonment rate of South Africa could not have come close to today's American rate simply due to limited room.
Just like America's involvement in Vietnam, Tricia looks back to see that even good intentions can have terrible consequences, but absolution is possible in the end. AP book reviews: https ...
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America is a 2014 non-fiction book by political scientist Naomi Murakawa, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University. [2] It addresses causes of the rapid increase in U.S. incarceration rates since the 1970s and of racial inequality in the U.S. prison system .
Gilmore has been a leading scholar and speaker on topics including prisons, decarceration, racial capitalism, oppositional movements, state-making, and more. She is the author of the book Golden Gulag which was awarded the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies by the American Studies Association in 2008 ...