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

Jonathan Simon

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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.

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Mass incarceration on trial : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America by Jonathan Simon. ISBN 9781595587695. Published by The New Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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