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The importance of opposing viewpoints -- Introduction -- Is mass incarceration an effective system for curbing crime? -- What are the societal effects of incarceration? -- Are there problems with our prison system? -- How do we perceive crime? -- How do we handle crime? -- For further discussion -- Organizations to contact -- Bibliography of books -- Index

What is the best method for rehabilitating minors? -- Changing views in changing times / Alex Piquero and Laurence Steinberg -- Keeping kids close to home / Johnathan Silver -- A matter of maximizing treatment / Mayra Aguilera -- What does prison achieve? / Anna Aizer and Joseph Doyle -- Probation and other options / Barry Krisberg, Susan Marchionne, and Christopher Hartney -- The swedish solution / Erwin James -- Using a smarter approac / Andrew Day -- Should juveniles be incarcerated with adults? -- A tale of tragedy / Caitlin Curley -- The juvenile injustice system / Human Impact Partners -- Cruel and usual punishment / Andrea Wood -- The opposite effect / Shauneen Lambe -- An ideal alternative? / Shaena Fazel -- The brutal truth for imprisoned youth / Alberto Ayo and Howard Iken -- Does age matter? -- The life sentence ban and its impact / Gretchen Gavett and Sarah Childress -- Raise the age, reduce recidivism / Teresa Wiltz -- The trend against minor prosecutions / Lorelei Laird -- And what about victim rights? / National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers -- When kids are responsible for their own actions / Alan Greenblatt -- Facts about the incarceration of minors -- Organizations to contact -- For further reading -- Index -- Picture credits.

The California prison system, the largest in the country and the most at risk legally, operated at almost 200 percent of rated holding capacity, with more than 160,000 inmates. A special three-judge federal court had found that these conditions, in which suicides, violence, and lack of health care and other social services were endemic, violate the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause and ordered the state to reduce its prison census by as many as 46,000 inmates, to only 137.5 percent of capacity. In May 2011, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision (Brown v. Plata), affirmed the lower court, upholding what dissenting justices called perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation's history, one based on a judicial travesty. Operating under intense legal, political, and budgetary pressures, policymakers must search desperately for other ways to reduce prison overcrowding until the necessary but politically elusive structural and policy changes can be made. Under these difficult conditions, any policy that promises to reduce overcrowding without undue risk to public safety deserves serious consideration. In what follows, I propose such a policy. Simply stated, the federal government should deport some immigrant criminals before they enter prison, not after. This would seem to be a no-brainer. Adapted from the source document.

The violence of incarceration : an introduction / Jude McCulloch and Phil Scraton -- An afternoon in September 1983 / Laurence McKeown -- Entombing resistance : institutional power and polarisation in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit / Bree Carlton -- Protests and "riots" in the violent institution / Phil Scraton -- Child incarceration : institutional abuse, the violent state, and the politics of impunity / Barry Goldson -- Naked power : strip-searching in women's prisons / Jude McCulloch and Amanda George -- The imprisonment of women and girls in the north of Ireland : a "continuum of violence" / Linda Moore and Phil Scraton -- Neither kind nor gentle : the perils of "gender responsive justice" / Cassandra Shaylor -- The US military prison : the normalcy of exceptional brutality / Avery F. Gordon -- A reign of penal terror : US global statecraft and the technology of punishment and capture / Dylan Rodríguez -- Indigenous incarceration : the violence of colonial law and justice / Chris Cunneen -- The violence of refugee incarceration / Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering -- Preventing torture and casual cruelty in prisons through independent monitoring / Diana Medlicott

The history of american prisons -- Challenges and controversy in us prisons -- Education and health care -- Violence behind bars -- Juveniles in the prison system -- Detaining immigrants -- Life in prison or parole? -- Choosing between rehabilitation and punishment -- Glossary -- Further information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.

THOSE DISTURBED BY THE United States' largest-in-the-world incarceration rate have some new reasons to be cautiously optimistic. President Obama nominated an opponent of the drug war to the Justice Department's highest civil rights position, signaling the possibility that the costly and counterproductive imprisonment of drug users may be coming to an end. Conservatives from Newt Gingrich to Jeb Bush to Rand Paul are advocating for less incarceration and an end to employment discrimination for people with criminal records, hinting that crime panics won't be the campaign fodder they once were. The public is also less concerned with crime. In 1994, 37 percent of respondents listed crime as the most important problem facing the country. In 2014, only 2 percent did. That might be because only half as many people reported being the victim of a violent crime in 2013 as did in 1994. The incarceration rate is also declining (albeit slightly) after 40 years of steep increases. Adapted from the source document.